Comment 12 for bug 354793

Alexandre: 'now' shouldn't need to be fixed, because date will get the system time and convert it to the proper date. The problem comes with 'stamp' using 'date -r' on a file on the system, which could conceivably have the wrong date. Please correct me if I missed something.

As for coreutils, upstream (ie, not me or Ubuntu) has decided that the time in question and other dates such as 'Feb 30' are wrong because they don't exist and choose to express that as an error condition. As such, we need to adjust our tools/scripts to account for this.