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From: raman@CS.Cornell.EDU (T. V. Raman)
Subject: Latex and today
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There seems to be a bug in TeX and by implication in LaTeX.  
The \today command seems to get the Date as per GMT and not according
to the local time.

Thus on our system,  if you use \today after 20:00,  the date printed
is the next day's,  not the current date.

--Raman
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