Comment 0 for bug 1197870

The current debian-changelog-mode shells out to coreutils' date.

To increase portability (some developers work on packages from other architectures), it would be nice to see this clean up get integrated:

https://github.com/pcarrier/debian-changelog-mode/commit/7af9e9a

I get this should be reported upstream, but I won't pursue this further. Feel free to report/champion if this is of any interest to you.