[EMAIL PROTECTED] is on permanent record as saying:
:> Don't assume everybody uses GNU date. ;-)
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:This happens to be a Linux mailing list... not a soloris list.

Gnu != Linux.

In fact, not all distributions favour the gnu implementation of
software.  For instance, debian uses mawk rather than gawk for the
default install.  In this case, gawk is slower but more feature-full.
However, very few packages depend on gawk features, so the choice is for
speed and size.

Greg
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