I have the same problem on gutsy (coreutils  5.97-5.3ubuntu).

A workaround is to specify as a first operation "0 min" (so without a +
or - sign, as Tino suggests) and then the actual operation. e.g. :

      date  -d "2007-03-23 21:01 0 min -10 min"

At least for me, it works.

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Calculations by "date" are wrong
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