diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
index 7bff14f9c..8b9de0f04 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ ksh 93u+m general copyright notice
 #                   atheik <atteh.mailbox@gmail.com>                   #
 #                   Chase <nicetrynsa@protonmail.ch>                   #
 #                 Finnbarr P. Murphy <fpm@hotmail.com>                 #
+#                  George Lijo <george.lijo@gmail.com>                 #
 #                 Govind Kamat <govind_kamat@yahoo.com>                #
 #                 Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>                 #
 #                   Lev Kujawski <int21h@mailbox.org>                  #
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 66d203682..c0fa3248d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/tree/1.0
 
 Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
 
+2022-05-25:
+
+- Fixed a bug introduced on 2021-02-20 that caused incorrect output for
+  typeset -L/-R/-Z when the variable contained leading or trailing spaces.
+  Thanks to George Lijo for the report and the fix.
+
 2022-05-21:
 
 - Fixed a bug, present since the beginning of ksh93, that broke backslash line
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index c04cdcf6b..d4af15fd8 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 #define SH_RELEASE_FORK	"93u+m"		/* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
 #define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.0-beta.2"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-05-21"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2022-05-25"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 #define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2022 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c
index b0c085d56..0f418aa97 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c
@@ -2991,36 +2991,8 @@ void nv_newattr (register Namval_t *np, unsigned newatts, int size)
 				if(!*sp) sp--;		/* if number was 0, leave one zero */
 			}
 			n = strlen(sp);
-			if(size==0 || (newatts&(NV_INTEGER|NV_BINARY)))
-			{
-				/* allocate to match existing value for numerics and auto length assignment for -L/R/Z */
-				cp = (char*)sh_malloc((size_t)n + 1);
-				strcpy(cp, sp);
-			}
-			else if(size>=n)
-			{
-				/* growing string */
-				cp = (char*)sh_malloc((size_t)size + 1);
-				strcpy(cp, sp);
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				/* shrinking string */
-				cp = (char*)sh_malloc((size_t)size + 1);
-				if(newatts&NV_RJUST)
-					strncpy(cp, n - size + sp, size);
-				else
-				{
-					/* NV_LJUST and the rest */
-					if(newatts&NV_ZFILL)
-					{
-						while(*sp=='0') sp++;	/* skip initial zeros */
-						if(!*sp) sp--;		/* if number was 0, leave one zero */
-					}
-					strncpy(cp, sp, size);
-				}
-				cp[size] = '\0';
-			}
+			cp = (char*)sh_malloc((n >= (unsigned)size ? n : (unsigned)size) + 1);
+			strcpy(cp, sp);
 			if(sp && (mp=nv_opensub(np)))
 			{
 				if(trans)
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/attributes.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/attributes.sh
index ff5829e4a..025d377c5 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/attributes.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/attributes.sh
@@ -677,6 +677,21 @@ exp=$'00000\n000\n0000000'
 [[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit 'failed to zero-fill zero' \
 	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
 
+# Bug in versions 2021-02-20 to 2022-05-21: incorrect output for
+# typeset -L/-R/-Z when the variable had leading or trailing spaces
+# https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/476
+exp='22/02/09'
+got=$(typeset -L8 s_date1=" 22/02/09 08:25:01"; echo "$s_date1")
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit 'incorrect output for typeset -L8' \
+	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+exp='9 08:25:01'
+got=$(typeset -R10 s_date1="22/02/09 08:25:01 "; echo "$s_date1")
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit 'incorrect output for typeset -R10' \
+	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+got=$(typeset -Z10 s_date1="22/02/09 08:25:01 "; echo "$s_date1")
+[[ $got == "$exp" ]] || err_exit 'incorrect output for typeset -Z10' \
+	"(expected $(printf %q "$exp"), got $(printf %q "$got"))"
+
 # ======
 # Applying the readonly attribute to an existing variable having a non-numeric attribute with a
 # size such as -L, -R, or -Z would be set to 0 when it should have maintained the old size unless