# RE: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

2 messages from 2005-04-30 to 2005-04-30. Participants: Luck, Tony, H. Peter Anvin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/407

## Luck, Tony, 2005-04-30 05:28

Subject: RE: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE
Message-ID: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F035EDE5C@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F035EDE5C%40scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com

```
>Fixed version below.

Yup ... that fixes it for my initial test cases.  Thanks.

-Tony

P.S. The libcurl that I found (curl-7.12.1-3.src.rpm) has curl_getdate()
implemented as >1000 lines of yacc.  Which seems like overkill (unless
I really need to set AUTHOR_DATE="a week ago last tuesday" :-)

```

## H. Peter Anvin, 2005-04-30 23:14

Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE
Message-ID: <4274114F.20706@zytor.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4274114F.20706%40zytor.com
In-Reply-To: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F035EDE5C@scsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

```
Luck, Tony wrote:
>>Fixed version below.
> 
> 
> Yup ... that fixes it for my initial test cases.  Thanks.
> 
> -Tony
> 
> P.S. The libcurl that I found (curl-7.12.1-3.src.rpm) has curl_getdate()
> implemented as >1000 lines of yacc.  Which seems like overkill (unless
> I really need to set AUTHOR_DATE="a week ago last tuesday" :-)

That one is obsolete.

	-hpa

```