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Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)


We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message gimme gimme gimme in stderr, which wasn't expected. Why are...

We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. Still, some people did find it annoying, and six years seems like a pretty good run for that sort of thing; it probably isn't going to get significantly better exposure than it already unexpectedly has by way of this question. Earn 10 reputation (not counting the association bonus) in order to answer this question.

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