severity 557738 wishlist
tags 557738 + wontfix upstream
forwarded 557738 gb...@pobox.com
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Hello
I tag this as wontfix according to the upstream authors reply.
bye,
-christian-
Am Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:50:00 -0600
schrieb Graham Barr <gb...@pobox.com>:
> I disagree 2007 is the correct answer, 07 is ambiguous so expecting
> 2007 is just as wrong as 1907 IMO.
>
> Graham.
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Christian Hammers wrote:
>
> > Hello Graham
> >
> > Attached is a bug report against Time::Date Perl which I got via
> > the Debian bug tracking system.
> >
> > bye,
> >
> > -christian-
> >
> >
> > Start weitergeleitete Nachricht:
> >
> > Datum: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:59:36 +0100
> > Von: Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net>
> > An: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Bug#557738: libtimedate-perl: RFC2822 dates with 2-digit
> > year are not parsed correctly (regression)
> >
> >
> > Package: libtimedate-perl
> > Version: 1.1900-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > With libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9:
> >
> > $ perl -MDate::Parse -e \
> > 'print gmtime(str2time("26 Apr 07 21:38:23 -0700"))."\n"'
> > Fri Apr 27 04:38:23 2007
> >
> > This is OK. But with libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1:
> >
> > $ perl -MDate::Parse -e \
> > 'print gmtime(str2time("26 Apr 07 21:38:23 -0700"))."\n"'
> > Sat Apr 27 04:38:23 1907
> >
> > The year is incorrect.
> >
> > Even though a 2-digit year may be ambiguous (still generated by some
> > software unfortunately), 2007 is the correct interpretation.
> >
> > I suggest to use the rule specified by the RFC 2822:
> >
> > Where a two or three digit year occurs in a date, the year is to
> > be interpreted as follows: If a two digit year is encountered whose
> > value is between 00 and 49, the year is interpreted by adding
> > 2000, ending up with a value between 2000 and 2049. If a two digit
> > year is encountered with a value between 50 and 99, or any three
> > digit year is encountered, the year is interpreted by adding 1900.
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> > APT prefers unstable
> > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> >
> > Versions of packages libtimedate-perl depends on:
> > ii perl 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical
> > Extraction
> >
> > libtimedate-perl recommends no packages.
> >
> > libtimedate-perl suggests no packages.
> >
> > -- no debconf information
> >
> >
>
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