Re: date in core utils

[Paul Eggert]

Rene de Zwart <address@hidden> writes:

>       Probably the time in the Netherlands was adjusted from one standard to
>       another standard in 1937.

Yes, that's it.  The time stamp 1937-07-01 00:00:00 is not valid in
the Netherlands, since the clocks gained 27.87 seconds then, and jumped
from 1937-06-30 23:59:59.99999... to 1937-07-01 00:00:27.87.
So you're asking "date" to display a time stamp that's invalid for
your location.