From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:27:59 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: separate out description of 2038 time stamp change
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doc: separate out description of 2038 time stamp change

* NEWS: Separate out the description of the _existing_ issues
with outputting timestamps on 32 bit systems, from _future_ issues
outputting timestamps on all systems.  Also move this to the
"improvement" section, since it's not really a coreutils
specific issue, and also is a build time configurable option.
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 53a342a5ed..50a3b711f9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   tac now falls back to '/tmp' if a configured $TMPDIR is unavailable.
 
+  pinky, uptime, and who output accurate times after the year 2038.
+  A new configure-time option --enable-systemd enables experimental
+  support for using systemd, to let these programs continue to work
+  even after the year 2038, so long as systemd is also installed.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 9.3 (2023-04-18) [stable]