Sorry clicked the wrong link

I found a hideous, hideous workaround for this, which, like everything involving Jelly, relies on some black magic that I don't understand.

Put this or something similar in your maven.xml if you have an environment like the original poster (boy, I hope this is formatted right by JIRA):

<project xmlns:ant="jelly:ant" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:maven="jelly:maven">

<j:set var="oldName" value="${systemScope['os.name']}"/>
${systemScope.setProperty('oldOSName', oldName)}

<preGoal name="maven-changelog-plugin:report">
${systemScope.setProperty('os.name', 'bogus')}
</preGoal>

<postGoal name="maven-changelog-plugin:report">
<j:set var="oldName" value="${systemScope['oldOSName']}"/>
${systemScope.setProperty('os.name', oldName)}
</postGoal>

</project>

Actually, the more I look at this bug the more weird it is. This has nothing to do with CVSNT as far as I can tell. The CvsChangeLogGenerator.java file simply quotes arguments to cvs log -d if you're on the Windows platform. But recall that ostensibly the Maven CVS infrastructure (at least on Maven 1.1b2) is all Netbeans-Java-based, so the type of client you would otherwise run is wholly irrelevant.

Fixed by introducing a maven.changelog.quoteDate property. Please test:

maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://cvs.apache.org/repository/ -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-changelog-plugin -Dversion=1.9-SNAPSHOT

Tested and NOT fixed! Unless the "maven.changelog.quoteDate" property needs to take some value other than "true"...

maven-changelog-plugin:report:
[echo] Generating the changelog report
Server is not supporting gzip-file-contents request
ChangeSet between 2005-12-19 and 2006-01-19: 0 entries

Use maven.changelog.quoteDate=true if you want quotes around the date argument. So in your case, I guess you want maven.changelog.quoteDate=false (no quotes). Thanks for testing!

Works like a charm. Now if the equivalent bug (MOJO-78) could only get fixed in Maven 2 as well...