Mailfs date problem

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hi,

Pavel Tsekov drew my attention to the fact that the fact that we now
only parse dates with 3 elements (either year or time, not both) broke
mailfs. I intend to fix this, but haven't had time to look into this
thoroughly.

The representation for files younger and older than 6 months use either
time or year in the third field. However, there's a bit of an issue as
to what constitutes to 6 months that I need to investigate before I can
commit a correct fix. GNU ls seems to change at 180 or 181 days in the
past (not sure why this is inconsistent) but I'm unsure what mc assumes
internally (this day 6 months ago?).

Anyway, if you are using mc from CVS and using mailfs you can
temporarily use the attached patch which parses the date values back to
3 fields (year, not time). This causes all times for emails younger than
6 months to be represented as 00:00 which is ugly but at least it gets
rid of the year in the mail name.

I hope to find some time to fix this issue correctly next week (or the
week after that ;) .

Leonard.

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