Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached to fix it.
From 9c5e542fd190a14431092e3b6cb45d18fe95f26f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:52:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] date: diagnose -f read errors
* src/date.c (batch_convert): Diagnose read errors, fixing Bug#62497.
---
src/date.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/date.c b/src/date.c
index 0f2012761..bc4cc0ce9 100644
--- a/src/date.c
+++ b/src/date.c
@@ -368,7 +368,9 @@ batch_convert (char const *input_filename, char const *format,
ssize_t line_length = getline (&line, &buflen, in_stream);
if (line_length < 0)
{
- /* FIXME: detect/handle error here. */
+ if (ferror (in_stream))
+ die (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("%s: read error"),
+ quotef (input_filename));
break;
}
--
2.37.2
