diff --git a/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog b/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog
index b7ac2a741..304d7fc1b 100644
--- a/old/sh-utils/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+1998-12-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
+
+	* src/date.c (main): Arrange to exit unsuccessfully when stime fails.
+
+1998-12-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+	* configure.in (ALL_LINGUAS): Add Russian (ru).
+
 1998-12-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
 
 	* lib/putenv.c: Redefine putenv before including stdlib.h to work
diff --git a/old/sh-utils/NEWS b/old/sh-utils/NEWS
index e4b24617d..be147af4b 100644
--- a/old/sh-utils/NEWS
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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Changes in release 1.17
  [1.16f]
+* `date -s' now exits with nonzero status upon failure
 * new autoconf tests detect bugs in vendor mktime from Irix-6.4 and SunOS4.1.4
   Your executables will be a little larger on such systems because you'll use
   GNU's mktime function, but date will work more reliably.