convdate bug

[Russ Allbery]

Ian! D Allen <idallen at freenet.carleton.ca> writes:

> Am I missing something about the convdate program in INN?

> Loop:

>     foreach mon ( Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec )
> 	convdate -s "$mon 15 20:00"
>     end

Nope, it doesn't correct properly for daylight savings time.  It's not
generally relevant to the operation of INN since news messages are
required to contain time zone information and it works properly when a
time zone is provided.

The problem is with the parsedate routine in lib.  I found this a while
back, but couldn't figure out a good way to fix it.

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