BUG: date 7.1 - reading date string

[Klaus Bramstedt]

Dear coreutils-team,

I used the command
 date -d "$DATE"
for almost all dates between Aug 2002 end Jan 2010 in a script.
Date has a format like this
   "2003-03-30 02:08:17"
However, 7 of 42048 randomly distributed dates in the list failed:

date: ungültiges Datum „2003-03-30 02:08:17“
date: ungültiges Datum „2003-03-30 02:25:58“
date: ungültiges Datum „2005-03-27 02:08:41“
date: ungültiges Datum „2006-03-26 02:41:44“
date: ungültiges Datum „2008-03-30 02:08:09“
date: ungültiges Datum „2009-03-29 02:09:26“
date: ungültiges Datum „2007-03-25 02:03:47“

For me, this seems to be a bug in the date reading part. The critical 
combination seems to be end of March and '02' as hour.

My setup:
----
uname -a
Linux **** 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-12-15 23:55:40 +0100 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
--- (LANG=C gives the same errore)
echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8
---
date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 7.1
Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.


No need for an direkt answer, this is not critical for me.

best regards

Klaus Bramstedt


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