[Resend now that Jesse points out that mail is again working — Eric]
Hello,
I am checking mailgate interface and found strange thing.
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Thank you for taking some action:
%rt user kimura
RT: Username kimura noticed.
pass ***** RT: You are now authenticated as kimura.
%rt set due 4 11/09/00
RT: Date due changed to Thu, Jan 1 1970 09:00:00 (53)
This is regarded as Unix’s start date, I believe. So, the input
will be wrong with FreeBSD4.1. This also happens in the format
11/09/2000.
Does somebody know correct date format for this?
TIA
Kazu
I’ve sent this out a couple of times on this list, but I haven’t been
good enough to actually post a patch. I should have checked with
Jesse as to whether this fix is in 1.0.5 when he called for comments,
but I was out (offline) sick. Here’s the deal with date due in at
least the older RT versions:
There is a bug in rt/lib/rt/ui/mail/manipulate.pm in the “SET due”
handler. The function call
($trans, $message)=
&rt::change_due_date($serial_no, $date_due, $current_user);
is wrong. The second argument should be “$due_date”, not “$date_due”.
Also, there’s another minor error in the “date_parse” routine in
rt/lib/rt/support/utils.pm. This routine will parse, e.g., 4/30/00
to $month=4, $day=30, $year=2000, but timelocal (to which this value
is later passed) expects months counting from 0, so most of the
“$month = $n” statements should really be “$month = $n - 1”.
If someone will point me to a primer on creating “patch” utils (I’m
sure it’s easy but I just haven’t done it before), and if Jesse says
it’s not fixed in 1.0.5, I can spend some time to create and submit a
more formal patch.
I know that these problems are being addressed in 2.0, I just don’t
know about versions of 1.0.x.
— Eric