date bug

[Dr. Roger J. McNichols]

BUG in date command.


Using:
date (GNU sh-utils) 1.16

Problem:
There is no option to explicitly tell date the format of the 
string supplied in the -d option.

Example:
%  date -d `date +%s`
date: invalid date `1065042571'


Reported by:

Roger J. McNichols           
BioTex, Inc.