Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-6
Severity: normal

Observe following (base date chosen for easier comparison, but other base dates 
misbehave too):

$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01"
Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 EET 2009

$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +0 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 02:00:02 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 0 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 00:00:02 EET 2009

$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +1 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 01:59:02 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +2 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 01:58:02 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +3 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 01:57:02 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 -1 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 02:02:02 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 -2 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 02:02:02 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 -3 seconds"
Thu Jan  1 02:03:02 EET 2009

$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +0 hours"
Thu Jan  1 03:00:01 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 0 hours"
Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 EET 2009

$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +1 hours"
Thu Jan  1 02:59:01 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +2 hours"
Thu Jan  1 02:58:01 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 +3 hours"
Thu Jan  1 02:57:01 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 -1 hours"
Thu Jan  1 03:01:01 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 -2 hours"
Thu Jan  1 03:02:01 EET 2009
$ date -d "2009-01-01 00:00:01 -3 hours"
Thu Jan  1 03:03:01 EET 2009

Also I feel that 2 hours gap could be a consequence of my GMT+02:00 timezone,
but anyway it looks like a bug. :(


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486
Locale: LANG=be_BY.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=be_BY.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) 
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                       2.2.47-2   Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.65-5   SELinux shared libraries

coreutils recommends no packages.

coreutils suggests no packages.

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