Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:22:21 +1000 From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au> This is a bug in 'date'. That `date' bug is fixed in sh-utils-2.0. Here's the ChangeLog entry. 1997-07-19 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * src/date.c (show_date): Don't hang if strftime produces an empty string.