Bug#557738: libtimedate-perl: RFC2822 dates with 2-digit year are not parsed correctly (regression)

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Sat Mar 13 10:05:39 UTC 2010


On 2010-03-13 10:47:57 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> In such a case, you should fix the documentation, as there are
> examples with 2-digit years:
> 
>         Wed, 16 Jun 94 07:29:35 CST
>         Thu, 13 Oct 94 10:13:13 -0700
>         21/dec/93 17:05
>         16 Nov 94 22:28:20 PST

Also this would be an API change that thus breaks existing Perl
scripts. So, this API change must be properly documented.

In the Debian package, the NEWS file must mention it.

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