Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: 2005-04-30 14:32:30
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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