diff --git a/git-quick-stats b/git-quick-stats
index fde7b43..332a673 100755
--- a/git-quick-stats
+++ b/git-quick-stats
@@ -89,6 +89,21 @@ function checkUtils() {
     do
         command -v "$u" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "$u ${MSG}"; exit 1; }
     done
+
+    # NOTE: The --version flag is only available in GNU date which is required
+    # for how the current date/time strings are used in this shell script.
+    # To fully support the legacy BSD date found in a default install within
+    # macOS and older distributions of Linux and Unix, a handful of helper
+    # functions can probably be created to handle every case of incompatibility
+    # between the two. Until that's implemented, it is probably best to warn
+    # the user that this will not work rather than having it silently bomb out
+    # during runtime.
+    if ! date --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo "ERROR: You must have GNU date installed."
+        echo "If you're on macOS, please use brew to install this utility."
+        echo "Make sure the GNU version of date is symlinked to 'date', too."
+        exit 1
+    fi
 }
 
 ################################################################################
@@ -107,16 +122,17 @@ function optionPicked() {
 # ARGS: $* (required): String
 # OUTS: String
 ################################################################################
-format_date() {
-  local date="${1}"
-  local outf="${2}"
-  local datef="${3:-"%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z"}"  # Tue Oct 24 13:34:22 2023 +0300
-  if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
+function format_date() {
+    # NOTE: While this works where it's implemented within the changelogs()
+    # function the first time, it then bombs out when it reaches the -d flag
+    # in the second half of that same code as BSD date cannot handle -d, nor
+    # can it handle a string such as DATE - 1 day.
+    local date="${1}"
+    local outf="${2}"
+    local datef="${3:-"%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z"}"  # Tue Oct 24 13:34:22 2023 +0300
     local resp="$(date -d "${date}" "+${outf}")"
-  elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
-    local resp="$(date -j -f "${datef}" "${date}" "+${outf}")"
-  fi
-  printf "%s" "${resp}"
+
+    printf "%s" "${resp}"
 }
 
 ################################################################################
diff --git a/git-quick-stats.1 b/git-quick-stats.1
index 417432e..55a05f6 100644
--- a/git-quick-stats.1
+++ b/git-quick-stats.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH git-quick-stats "1" "June 2021" "git-quick-stats" "User Commands"
+.TH git-quick-stats "1" "April 2024" "git-quick-stats" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 .B git\-quick\-stats
 \- Simple and efficient way to access various stats in a git repository.
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ displays a list of commits per year
 displays a list of commits per weekday
 .HP
 .PP
-\fB\-W\fR, \fB\-\-commits\-by\author\-by\-weekday\fR
+\fB\-W\fR, \fB\-\-commits\-by\-author\-by\-weekday\fR
 .IP
 displays a list of commits per weekday by author
 .HP
diff --git a/tests/commands_test.sh b/tests/commands_test.sh
index 456698e..bd55765 100755
--- a/tests/commands_test.sh
+++ b/tests/commands_test.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# Verify we are in a git repo. Create one if not
+# FIXME: All the paths are hardcoded currently and will break if anything
+# in this chain moves or gets executed elsewhere. Adjust all of these so
+# pathing does not matter as much such as creating a TOP variable that
+# does something like TOP=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit ; pwd -P)
+# or maybe leverages Make to handle these as test targets
+./tests/test-git/resetgit
+
 . tests/assert.sh -v
 
 src="./git-quick-stats"
diff --git a/tests/test-git/resetgit b/tests/test-git/resetgit
index 1a1da35..3e13b0a 100755
--- a/tests/test-git/resetgit
+++ b/tests/test-git/resetgit
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# Initialises a new local Git repo for test purpose.
-if test -d ../test-git/.git; then rm -Rf ../test-git/.git; fi
-#mkdir test-git
-cd ../test-git
-git init
-git config user.name "$(printf %s 'Test Git,\nfor test purpose')"
-git config user.email "TestGit\o/@example.org"
+# Initialises a new local Git repo for test purpose if one does not exist already
+if ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    {
+        git init
+        git config user.name "$(printf %s 'Test Git,\nfor test purpose')"
+        git config user.email "TestGit\o/@example.org"
 
-#printf '\n[user]\nname = test-git\nemail = test-git@example.org\n'> .git/config
-printf 'test-git\n========\n' > README.md
-git add README.md
-git commit -m 'added readme (o\w/o)' -m 'in markdown, no \r\n, only \n' -m 'a very "simple" readme'
-testChars="$(printf 'tab [%b] form feed [%b] line feed [%b] carriage return [%b]' '\x09' '\x0C' '\x0A' '\x0D')"
-#printf '# testChars [%s]\n' "$testChars">&2
-git notes add -m 'Some notes' -m 'out of ascii: été au cœur' -m "$testChars"
-git log
+        printf 'test-git\n========\n' > README.md
+        git add README.md
+        git commit -m 'added readme (o\w/o)' -m 'in markdown, no \r\n, only \n' -m 'a very "simple" readme'
+        testChars="$(printf 'tab [%b] form feed [%b] line feed [%b] carriage return [%b]' '\x09' '\x0C' '\x0A' '\x0D')"
+        git notes add -m 'Some notes' -m 'out of ascii: été au cœur' -m "$testChars"
+        git log
+    } >/dev/null 2>&1
+fi