PROBLEM:  (QAR 50276, QAR 53348)         (Patch ID: OSF415-400340 )
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This patch fixes a problem in which the 'date' command is unable to set the
date to January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT or February 29, 2000.

To reproduce the problem, do the following:

root# TZ=:GMT ; export TZ
root# date 01010000.0070