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On May 20, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Andrew Clark <lark047 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this a Cygwin question or a bash question, but I came
> here first.

Given that date is not a Bash builtin, I don’t know why that’s even on the table.

The Cygwin DLL *is* involved, but a problem in the key function (time(2)) would break an *awful* lot of software, so I can’t see it being the source of the change.

More likely, the change is in newlib or the terminal I/O code.

What do you get from “strace -fq date +%s”?
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