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From: rct@occrsh.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: getdate.y bug and fix(!)
Message-ID: <147600002@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 89 15:51:00 GMT
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Nf-From: occrsh.ATT.COM!rct    Jan 31 09:51:00 1989


(This may only affect news sites which are gatewaying articles in from
notes systems, but the problem seems general enough to warrant a fix).

After applying patches 15-17, the parser in getdate() makes a
distinction between signed numbers and unsigned numbers.  This
means that dates of the form "30-Jan-89 02:23 CST" can not be
parsed.  The following patch corrects this problem.

	rct@occrsh.att.com

*** getdate.y~	Fri Jan 27 09:25:03 1989
--- getdate.y	Tue Jan 31 09:29:00 1989
***************
*** 101,106 ****
--- 101,108 ----
  	| UNUMBER MONTH =
  		{month = $2; day = $1;}
  	| UNUMBER MONTH UNUMBER =
+ 		{month = $2; day = $1; year = $3;}
+ 	| UNUMBER MONTH SNUMBER =	/* 30-Jan-89 */
  		{month = $2; day = $1; year = $3;};