error in date command

[Adam Miller]

Hi,

  According to the man page, /bin/date +%x should report the 
date in the following format: mm/dd/yy

  However, when run in bash the command above reports the date in the 
following format: mm/dd/yyyy

  I have been calling a bash script in through cron, which reports the 
date as it should.  So why would running the command in bash be different?

My machine:
Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) x86_64
Kernel 2.6.15
coreutils-5.2.1-48
bash-3.0-31

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Cheers,
Adam Miller