Re: mh-format %(clock{date}) broken lately.

[Doug Morris]

Peter Whaite wrote:
The last couple of days the mh-format %(clock{date}) function is returning
non integer values.  For example...

Seems to be a problem with exceeding 1 Billion Seconds. It begins
on 9 September.

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Re: mh-format %(clock{date}) broken lately.

[Simon Burge]

Peter Whaite wrote:

 The last couple of days the mh-format %(clock{date}) function is returning
 non integer values.  For example...
 
 % scan -format '%(msg) %{date} %(clock{date}) ' +inbox/cron/sachiko
 
 1 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:45:03 -0400 709281369 
 2 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:00:03 -0400 709282006 
 3 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:15:04 -0400 709282645 
 4 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:30:07 -0400 709283286 
 5 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:45:03 -0400 70928391= 
 6 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:00:03 -0400 70928455; 

Without looking at the source for a fix, specifying a width of 10 works:

scan -format '%(msg) %{date} %10(clock{date}) ' cur

Simon.
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