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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> I've written two scripts, one is combination of sed and awk:
>>
>>   echo DATE_VERSION | sed 's/\(....\)\(..\)\(..\)/\1 \2 \3 00 00 00/' |
>>                       LANG=C awk '{print (strftime ("%B %-d, %Y", mktime ($0)))}'
> ..
>> Which would be better to use?
>
> Does the awk program work also with GNU awk -c and/or awk on OS X and *BSD?

That would only convert a "not all systems have GNU date (or GNU binutils) 
by default" problem into a "not all systems have GNU awk" problem, IMO.