diff --git a/contrib/reghunt/ChangeLog b/contrib/reghunt/ChangeLog
index 33ba2c7a54033b4f369941ad5c0e9413a9a12887..6e3c3e980fd035738e4813c8a38b1700d0aa537a 100644
--- a/contrib/reghunt/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/reghunt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-01-17  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@cs.umass.edu>
+
+	* reg_periodic, reg_search: Fix the uses of date command.
+
 2003-06-24  Janis Johnson  <janis187@us.ibm.com>
 
 	* reg_search: Replace existing uses of DATE with MADE_DATE and
diff --git a/contrib/reghunt/reg_periodic b/contrib/reghunt/reg_periodic
index 4d46cf78d38cff2bf6984fbbe12f81f08bb9d319..33e7bd0a077e6ce6219b1fe6c415c38363c44fe7 100755
--- a/contrib/reghunt/reg_periodic
+++ b/contrib/reghunt/reg_periodic
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #               is STOP in the current directory.
 #
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ error() {
 # control tools and report to the user.
 
 make_date() {
-  MADE_DATE="`${DATE} -u +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z\" --date \"1970-01-01 00:00:${1}\"`" \
+  MADE_DATE="`${DATE} -u +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z\" --date \"1970-01-01 ${1} seconds\"`" \
     || error "make_date: date command failed"
 }
 
diff --git a/contrib/reghunt/reg_search b/contrib/reghunt/reg_search
index 9452dda8f5f75cd7c4bb8ccfee4d30f76bd86230..f89b963ec9e7c6f1a989ef76d4fbb3179aa9082b 100755
--- a/contrib/reghunt/reg_search
+++ b/contrib/reghunt/reg_search
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 #
 #
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ error() {
 # control tools and report to the user.
 
 make_date() {
-  MADE_DATE="`${DATE} -u +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z\" --date \"1970-01-01 00:00:${1}\"`" \
+  MADE_DATE="`${DATE} -u +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z\" --date \"1970-01-01 ${1} seconds\"`" \
     || error "make_date: date command failed"
 }