On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:41:37 -0600 (CST)
> From: Gilles Detillieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: William R. Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] Problems using date specific searches
> 
> According to William R. Knox:
> > I seem to be having a problem with date specific searches and the
> > use_doc_date attribute in the new 3.1.6 release of ht://Dig - the files
> > which I am indexing contain a header like so:
> > 
> > <meta name="Date" content="2002-02-06">
> > 
> > and the configuration file I am using has the following line:
> > 
> > use_doc_date: true
> > 
> > but I still get back files based on the modification date instead of the
> > meta Date tag. Am I using the wrong format for the meta tag? The following
> > search:
> > 
> > 
>http://xxxxxx.mitre.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=XXXXXX&restrict=directory/subdirectory&startday=7&startmonth=2&startyear=2002
> > 
> > returned a file with the meta tag above. Anyone have any ideas what I am
> > doing wrong? My apologies for not perusing the source code, but I am not
> > at all familiar with C++, so my initial searches came up with nothing
> > useful. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Arrgh!  Sorry, my fault.  I introduced new date parsing code in htdig
> a couple months ago, and I thought I had tested it but evidently not
> well enough.  On line 1142 of htdig/Retriever.cc, change the line:
> 
>     while (isspace(*s))
> 
> to:
> 
>     while (*s == '-' || isspace(*s))

I hate to say this so soon, but would you mind submitting a patch;(

Also please check:

        ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.6/timet_enddate.0 

Regards,

Joe
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