Retest will be trivial - just run date |egrep '.{1,2048}'
and enjoy the result if you're patient enough.
This bug appeared in between 2.2.5 and 2.3:
> date: 2002/02/27 19:00:56; author: drepper; state: Exp; lines: +7 -8399
> Check in complete rewrite.
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