Scheduled commands using at no longer work

at worked fine up until a few days ago - it did work with 10.5.2, but some update after that broke it.
You can schedule a command, but then, a random date is set, and the job has always the same id.
Eg:
$ at 0130 tomorrow
echo "bubu"
job 3 at Sun Mar 2 01:30:00 2008
$ atq
688128 Sun Sep 29 18:11:44 1929
I've tried this on three different machines, all with 10.5.2 and the latest updates installed.
Anyone has and idee???

Interesting about the 'a' queue being hosed. I successfully submitted a job to the 'c' queue:
% at -q c midnight
echo "hello world!"
job 5 at Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 2008
% atq
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Then I submitted the same job to the 'a' queue:
% at midnight
echo "hello world!"
job 6 at Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 2008
% atq
688128 Tue Jun 10 02:58:44 2025
5 Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 2008
Looking in /var/at/jobs, I saw:
% ls -l
total 12
-rwx------ 1 skip staff 2187 Mar 22 09:22 %A8000060132c3cc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 6 Mar 22 09:22 .SEQ
-rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 21 22:24 .lockfile
-rwx------ 1 skip staff 2235 Mar 22 09:20 c000050132c3cc
By renaming the first file there I was able to fix things:
% mv %A8000060132c3cc a000060132c3cc
% atq
6 Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 2008
5 Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 2008
So, is Apple reading this forum or is there some "official" place to
submit a bug report?
Skip Montanaro

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