From: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:00:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard): Autoload.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~159
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce2a8a6a938b759d84aa33eb6e06e0e0109b64b6;p=emacs.git

(timezone-make-date-arpa-standard): Autoload.
(date-to-time): Use it.
---

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/time-date.el b/lisp/gnus/time-date.el
index ba7f81a1ed1..3bfb9a454d0 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/time-date.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/time-date.el
@@ -28,11 +28,21 @@
 
 (require 'parse-time)
 
+(autoload 'timezone-make-date-arpa-standard "timezone")
+
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun date-to-time (date)
   "Convert DATE into time."
   (condition-case ()
-      (apply 'encode-time (parse-time-string date))
+      (apply 'encode-time
+	     (parse-time-string
+	      ;; `parse-time-string' isn't sufficiently general or
+	      ;; robust.  It fails to grok some of the formats that
+	      ;; timzeone does (e.g. dodgy post-2000 stuff from some
+	      ;; Elms) and either fails or returns bogus values.  Lars
+	      ;; reverted this change, but that loses non-trivially
+	      ;; often for me.  -- fx
+	      (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard date)))
     (error (error "Invalid date: %s" date))))
 
 (defun time-to-seconds (time)