coreutils.info is inconsistent with the manual page for 'date'

Bug #317383 reported by Shirish Agarwal
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: texinfo

Hi all,
    the date invocation gives the following results.

Doing info coreutils 'date invocation'

I get 21.1 `date': Print or set system date and time

while doing info 'coreutils' 'date'

I do get 27 Date input formats

This was discussed previously at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/38538

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.2-2ubuntu11
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-2ubuntu11
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libncurses5 5.7+20081220-1ubuntu1
 libc6 2.9-0ubuntu7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: info 4.11.dfsg.1-4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: texinfo
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-4-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
description: updated
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