Hi Ken,
It determines the style of date(1) to invoke without relying on user
input, then when that's known it invokes it again with the desired
number of seconds but without discarding stderr in case of problems,
and the existing `set -e' would exit on an error.
It occurs to me that feature tests are exactly what autoconf has been
designed to do, so maybe we should put the smarts in there?
Sounds right.
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