Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. I am marking this bug WONTFIX -- recent coreutils has _improved_ on the fuzzy calendar calculations. Please note that calculations are still quite fuzzy, and this type of usage may get in some weird results.
@Josh: thank you for the Debian link. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710368 Title: /bin/date --date='next month' is wrong -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs