Re: [PATCH 1/1] test: support for generating decreasing dates with bash 4.0 and 4.1

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] test: support for generating decreasing dates with bash 4.0 and 4.1

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:15:10 -0400

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> Added a new function `secs_to_rfc2822date` which uses the above specifier
> with post 4.1 bash and perl(1) construct with pre-4.2 bash.

Wouldn't it be simpler to always use perl?

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