Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> From 5be25413a76ca84c18e4f4174629af5fe6e87db1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:13:45 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add workaround for `date` regression in coreutils@8.26.
>>
>> See <https://bugs.gnu.org/23035> and <https://bugs.gnu.org/26238>.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils-8.27): New variable.
>> * gnu/system.scm (%base-packages): Use that instead of COREUTILS.
>
> Go for it!

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