Why the discrepancy in date?

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

> -----Original Message-----
> It turns out that this issue is fixed in date 8.13. The current Ubuntu is
still on
> date 8.5 without the fix.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Dotan Cohen
> 
> http://gibberish.co.il
> http://what-is-what.com

[W. Scott Lockwood III] 
Is there a version available in a backports repo?