Ambiguous date handling

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Packham
Hi, I think this has come up before [1],[2] but we ran into this at $dayjob today. Our default MUA has an annoying habit of using a non RFC822 date format when saving an email as plaintext. This means the first 12 days of every month we run into the ambiguous date problem (our date convention is

Re: Ambiguous date handling

2012-09-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Chris Packham judge.pack...@gmail.com writes: Our default MUA has an annoying habit of using a non RFC822 date format when saving an email as plaintext. This means the first 12 days of every month we run into the ambiguous date problem (our date convention is dd/mm/yy). I see code in date.c

Re: Ambiguous date handling

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Packham
On 09/12/2012 09:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Chris Packham judge.pack...@gmail.com writes: Our default MUA has an annoying habit of using a non RFC822 date format when saving an email as plaintext. This means the first 12 days of every month we run into the ambiguous date problem (our date

Re: Ambiguous date handling

2012-09-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Chris Packham judge.pack...@gmail.com writes: Consistent as long as you save as the default .txt. Some people have trained themselves to use the save as .eml option which uses RFC822 style output. Yuck. Could this be done in a applypatch-msg hook? Isn't the hook about fixing up the log