Dear Sir, I have stumbled across this anomaly whilst processing a series of dates. I have not found any other legal date combination that generates this error. Perl time facilities seem to be affected by this too. mjh@carnaby:~> date --date="2022/03/27 00:00:00" Sun 27 Mar 00:00:00 GMT 2022 mjh@carnaby:~> date --date="2022/03/27 01:00:00" date: invalid date ‘2022/03/27 01:00:00’ mjh@carnaby:~> date --date="2022/03/27 02:00:00" Sun 27 Mar 02:00:00 BST 2022 The version of date is: mjh@carnaby:~> date --version date (GNU coreutils) 8.29 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David MacKenzie. The operating system is opensuse leap 15.2: Linux version 5.3.18-lp152.106-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 7.5.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 22 08:38:17 UTC 2021 (52078fe) Martin Hughes