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@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
cut's --output-delimiter=D option works with abutting byte ranges.
+ The --date (-d) option of "date" and "touch" is now pickier about date values:
+ it rejects dates like "January 32" that have out-of-range components.
+ Also, date values can now have leading TZ="..." assignments that override
+ the environment only while that date is being processed. For example,
+ the following shell command converts from Paris to New York time:
+
+ TZ="America/New_York" date --date='TZ="Europe/Paris" 2004-10-31 06:30'
+
du no longer segfaults when a subdirectory of an operand
directory is removed while du is traversing that subdirectory.
Since the bug was in the underlying fts.c module, it also affected