Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] 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.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>