[Bug 2122359] Re: date: invalid date 'now - X seconds'

[Patricia Domingues]

Noticed this with the latest ppc64el Ubuntu 25.10 image `Ubuntu-Server
25.10 "Questing Quokka" - Daily ppc64el (20250910)patricia at p10rain:~$ `

```
p10rain login: patricia
Password: 
date: invalid date 'now - 404.10 seconds'
run-parts: /etc/update-motd.d/98-fsck-at-reboot exited with return code 1
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
```

** Also affects: ubuntu-power-systems
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  date: invalid date 'now - X seconds'

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  New
Status in rust-coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  run-parts is failing on 98-fsck-at-reboot, presumably due to rust-
  coreutils not supporting the arguments to `date`.

  this failure can be seen in the motd:

  date: invalid date 'now - X seconds'
  run-parts: /etc/update-motd.d/98-fsck-at-reboot exited with return code 1

  where X is a floating point number.

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