uh...  I tried to type 'date', but accidentally typed 'ddate'

Instead of getting bash's familiar
bash: ddate: command not found

I got:
$ ddate
Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3167

$ apropos ddate
ddate (1)            - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates

$ dpkg -S `which ddate`
util-linux: /usr/bin/ddate
cory@cory-l:~/devl/315cis$ dpkg -p util-linux
Package: util-linux
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 622
Maintainer: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.10q-1
Replaces: miscutils, setterm, getty, fdisk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97), libncurses5, slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0)
Conflicts: setterm, getty, fdisk
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/util-linux_2.10f-5.1.deb
Size: 307382
MD5sum: dff176e66e4798fd9c2289b7dce4d639
Description: Miscellaneous system utilities.
 A mixed bag of system utilities: arch chkdupexe cfdisk cytune dmesg
 fdisk fsck.minix getty getopt hwclock ipcrm ipcs kbdrate mcookie
 mkfs mkfs.minix mkswap more namei rdev setterm setsid tunelp whereis.


Hmmm, I see ddate is part of the base package, an essential and required utility!

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