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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: List of open Problem Reports
To: paul@FreeBSD.org
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 19:50:21 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM, bugs@freefall.FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199508141112.MAA00702@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 14, 95 12:12:18 pm
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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As Paul Richards wrote:
> 
> > >[PDT/08/01] kern/647      Sound cards fail to work
> >   ^^^
> > 
> > Looks like the new (gnew? :-) GNATS is picking the wrong field out of
> > a `date` somewhere.. 
> > 
> 
> Hmm, yes, this is one my list of gnats problems. I don't think this
> is serious enough at the moment drop back from the beta code but if
> people think so I will. I'll manually change these to 1995 when I get the
> chance.

Hmm, GNATS appears to emit a timezone now... Apply the following
patch to send-bug-summary on freefall:

--- send-bug-summary~	Sat Jul  8 13:49:35 1995
+++ send-bug-summary	Mon Aug 14 19:48:01 1995
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 	$number = &getline($_);
     } elsif (/Arrival-Date:/) {
 	$date = &getline($_);
+	# strip timezone if any (between HH:MM:SS and YYYY at end of line):
+	$date =~ s/(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)\D+(\d{4})$/\1 \2/;
 	($dow,$mon,$day,$time,$year) = split(/[ \t]+/, $date);
 	$day = "0$day" if $day =~ /^[0-9]$/;
 	$date = "$year/$mons{$mon}/$day";

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)