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Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

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RARuss Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date
Apr 30, 2005, 04:32 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> It also seems to do so in a particularly stupid way, and David
> Woodhouses suggestion of just using mktime() on Jan 1st, 1970, seems to
> be much simpler than what curl does.

Because of daylight savings time, this doesn't actually work. I know from personal experience; this is the tactic that I took at first when writing INN's date parser and was educated by test failures.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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  1. Luck, TonyApr 30, 2005
  2. H. Peter AnvinApr 30, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 30, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 30, 2005
  5. Russ AllberyApr 30, 2005
  6. David WoodhouseApr 30, 2005
  7. Edgar ToernigApr 30, 2005
  8. Russ AllberyApr 30, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 30, 2005
  10. Juliusz ChroboczekApr 30, 2005
  11. Edgar ToernigApr 30, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsApr 30, 2005
  13. Linus TorvaldsMay 1, 2005
  14. Randy.DunlapMay 1, 2005
  15. Edgar ToernigMay 1, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 30, 2005
  17. Edgar ToernigApr 30, 2005
  18. David WoodhouseApr 30, 2005
  19. Kay SieversApr 30, 2005
  20. David WoodhouseApr 30, 2005
  21. Edgar ToernigApr 30, 2005
  22. David WoodhouseApr 30, 2005
  23. Edgar ToernigApr 30, 2005
  24. Krzysztof HalasaMay 2, 2005
  25. H. Peter AnvinMay 2, 2005
  26. Krzysztof HalasaMay 2, 2005
  27. H. Peter AnvinMay 2, 2005
  28. Krzysztof HalasaMay 3, 2005
  29. H. Peter AnvinMay 3, 2005
  30. H. Peter AnvinApr 30, 2005
  31. Edgar ToernigApr 30, 2005

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