Re: Blocking bug W3C::Util::W3CDebugCGI

At 15:10 04/04/02 +0200, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
>Hi Eric,
>I downloaded annotea server v1.1 and installed it but since the
>1st of April the use of
>
>      my $dateStr = `date`;
>      if ($dateStr !~ m/^(\w+) (\w+)\s+(\d+) (\d+):(\d+):(\d+) (?:(\w+) 
> )?(\d+)$/) {
>           &throw(new W3C::Util::Exception(-message => "bad date 
> \"$dateStr\""));
>      }
>
>in W3C::Util::W3CDebugCGI (around line 54) throws an exception on my
>machine due
>to the fact that we now have Day Saving Time  in place.
>The output of date on my machine is for example:
>      Thu Apr  4 15:02:17 MET DST 2002
>and the RE in the if clause does not expect 'DST'
>
>I modified it as follows (removed timezone being optional in RE):
>      my $dateStr = `date '+%a %b %e %T %Y'`
>but it may be better to modify the RE.

Better still to use Perl built-in's instead of relying on 
platform-dependent commands.

Some suggestions at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-annotation/2002JanJun/0075.html
based on a CVS pull at the time.

Matthew Wilson