From: Russ Allbery Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:32:30 GMT Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE Message-ID: <87zmvganq9.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds 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)