Bug#324217: email-reminder: patch to tell exact date in mail message

[txemi]

Package: email-reminder
Version: 0.5.4-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

I use email-reminder to remind birthdays to mail lists.
Some users complaint that they did not like the actual message:

I just want to remind you that "somebody" is getting one year older in 2 days 

and preferred beint told the exact day so they did not have to calculate it.
So I modified code to do it and now this message is sent:

I just want to remind you that "somebody" is getting one year older in 2 days 
(2005-08-23).

This is the patch:
--------- CUT HERE----------
--- Event.pm    2005-04-25 22:07:10.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/perl5/EmailReminder/Event.pm     2005-08-21 03:34:21.000000000 
+0200
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@

                     if ($this->will_occur($days)) {
                         if ($days > 1) {
-                            $this->{WHEN} = "in $days days";
+                            $this->{WHEN} = "in $days days (" . 
$this->get_date() . ")";
                         }
                         elsif ($days == 1) {
                             $this->{WHEN} = "tomorrow";
------------- CUT HERE --------------

I would like it applied or some similar solution.

Thanks,
txemi.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages email-reminder depends on:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-88  management of regular background p
ii  libdate-manip-perl            5.44-1     a perl library for manipulating da
ii  libemail-valid-perl           0.15-2     Check validity of Internet email a
ii  libgtk2-perl                  1:1.083-1  Perl interface to the 2.x series o
ii  libxml-dom-perl               1.43-4     Perl module for building DOM Level
ii  perl                          5.8.7-4    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages email-reminder recommends:
ii  anacron                       2.3-11     a cron-like program that doesn't g
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.2.4-1    A high-performance mail transport 

-- no debconf information

--- Event.pm    2005-04-25 22:07:10.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/perl5/EmailReminder/Event.pm     2005-08-21 03:34:21.000000000 
+0200
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
                     
                     if ($this->will_occur($days)) {
                         if ($days > 1) {
-                            $this->{WHEN} = "in $days days";
+                            $this->{WHEN} = "in $days days (" . 
$this->get_date() . ")";
                         }
                         elsif ($days == 1) {           
                             $this->{WHEN} = "tomorrow";