It could happen in the past. Actually Solaris 10 was the first to fix it: http://web.archive.org/web/20061021192240/http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck/date/20041001 ht

It could happen in the past. Actually Solaris 10 was the first to fix it: http://web.archive.org/web/20061021192240/http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck/date/20041001 http://web.archive.org/web/20061021192240/http://blogs.sun.c... GNU coreutils changed the default to --preserve-root some years later, in version 6.2: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/ChangeLog-2006#n1570 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/ChangeLo...