change-log-redate

change-log-redate

[John Darrington]

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In GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2007-01-04 on saens, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2''
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Running change-log-redate on a ChangeLog file which 
contains strings like:
 
 Tue Jan  9 07:20:05 WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>

Changes them to 

 1999-11-30  WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>

which is not what I expected.


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Re: change-log-redate

[Nick Roberts]

 > Running change-log-redate on a ChangeLog file which 
 > contains strings like:
 >  
 >  Tue Jan  9 07:20:05 WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
 > 
 > Changes them to 
 > 
 >  1999-11-30  WST 2007 John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
 > 
 > which is not what I expected.

Yes this fails in Emacs 22/CVS Emacs too.  I don't see how this could ever have
worked as it doesn't seem to match on the timezone or year - perhaps you're the
first person to ever use it.  I could change it to work for your case but that
might break the case that the original author tested it on.

Why not just use 'C-x 4 a' (add-change-log-entry-other-window) which gives the
new style date format.  This just gives the date.  I've not seen
hours/mins/seconds in a Changelog as you can get these from cvs log, if
needed, I presume.

Perhaps we should remove change-log-redate as it appears broken.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob