On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:17:00PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

TW> There was a short discussion a month or so ago about the
TW> hyperarch 'mbox' archives having the wrong kind of date in the
TW> 'From ' lines... 'unixfrom' lines should have a very specific
TW> dateformat, namely that which 'time.ctime' returns. The
TW> following patch fixes Archiver/HyperArch.py. However, I'm not
TW> entirely sure if it will work correctly in other
TW> locales... can anyone test that, and propose a
TW> locale-independant way of producing this format ?

I didn't see a followup so I'm going to check this change in.

For the record, you can disregard the locale remark. ctime() is *exactly* how the From_ line should store its date, regardless of locale or what not.

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