Nope, still going it today, Weds Oct 31st. Maybe it's a Halloween thing
![Wink Smilie](https://www.unix.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)
I'll try it again tomorrow.
Funnily enough I tested this on a Solaris 11 system I have access to, which has Gnu Date installed as
/usr/bin/gdate, and it has the same problem. This version of gdate is 8.16.
Andrew