Re: date,,,

[Eric Blake]

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According to Gnthoralf on 4/24/2008 2:13 AM:
| Hello,
| I have the following bug in date,
| if I type date +%s the unixtimestamp is correct, but if I type "date" then I
| have 23 sec difference. I use suse 9 distro, with ntpd.

Sounds like it might be due to the number of leap seconds that have
occurred since 1970?

| date version is date (GNU coreutils) 5.93.

Consider upgrading; the latest stable version is 6.11 (although it is
unlikely to change the behavior you observe).

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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