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   env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
   [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.90]
 
+** Improvements
+
+  "touch -d now writable-but-owned-by-someone-else" now succeeds
+  whenever that same command would succeed without "-d now".
+  Before, it would work fine with no -d option, yet it would
+  fail with the ostensibly-equivalent "-d now".
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.91 (2007-12-15) [beta]