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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Date parsing
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:40:42 +0200
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Hi,

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 03:28:56PM -0700,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
[...]
>                 /* Be it commit time or author time, it does not make
>                  * sense to specify timestamp way into the future.  Make
>                  * sure it is not later than ten days from now...
>                  */
>                 if (now + 10*24*3600 < specified)
>                         return 0;
[...]

Great.
So it really turns out that this bug is a nifty feature. (Except if we receive
patches from the future with a numeric date format.)

Thanks for the explanation,
  Stephan

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