Re: [htdig3-dev] Re: URL and Server Config blocks


Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] Re: URL and Server Config blocks
From: Gilles Detillieux (grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 14:46:38 PST


According to Geoff Hutchison:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > attribute. I'm not sure about date_format and iso_8601 - they're only
> > used in htsearch, aren't they? What do server block attributes mean
>
> OK, I might be wrong about date_format, but I thought iso_8601 also had
> effect when parsing the date from a server. I could be wrong--I didn't
> look at the code at all when I did this.

iso_8601 is also used by htnotify, but not htdig. Dates from the server
MUST be in a POSIX-style format, and not specific to any locale. Any server
that uses locale-specific dates is broken. This is why after setting the
locale, the code currently always sets LC_TIME back to "C".

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Phone:  (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)   Fax:    (204)789-3930

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