NaN's in the date field of the mailing list archive

NaN's in the date field of the mailing list archive

[Christopher L Conway]

Has anybody else noticed that the mailing list archives have a bug
where the data is always displayed as "NaN-NaN-NaN (NaN:NaN)"? This is
visible on the main index page [1] and on any individual message page
(e.g., [2]), but not on the "Index by Dates" or "Index by Threads"
pages for individual months (e.g., [3,4]). This can be inconvenient
when you enter a thread via Google and attempt to derive some context
for it. It's also bad marketing (blatant user-visible bugs on OCaml's
flagship advocacy site). I don't know if this is coming from OCaml
code or some Javascript, PHP, whatever... It's definitely on the
server side, because the NaN strings appear in the HTML source.

Chris

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/
[2] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2008/03/486fa33f153aafd82aa105c3ee288017.en.html
[3] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2008/03/index.en.html
[4] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2008/03/threads.en.html

Re: [Caml-list] NaN's in the date field of the mailing list archive

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:33:28PM -0400, Christopher L Conway wrote:
> Has anybody else noticed that the mailing list archives have a bug
> where the data is always displayed as "NaN-NaN-NaN (NaN:NaN)"? This is

Yes, I've noticed that too, and that's the reason why I'm using the
Google archives of the mailing list (a pity, I would much prefer INRIA's
archives). I've tried mailing in the past the contact address for the
website about that, but I've only got back a mail bounce.

Cheers.

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Re: [Caml-list] NaN's in the date field of the mailing list archive

[Christopher L Conway]

You mean, I assume, http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml? Oddly,
Google seems to prefer http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list
(at least in my searches).

Regards,
Chris

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:33:28PM -0400, Christopher L Conway wrote:
>  > Has anybody else noticed that the mailing list archives have a bug
>  > where the data is always displayed as "NaN-NaN-NaN (NaN:NaN)"? This is
>
>  Yes, I've noticed that too, and that's the reason why I'm using the
>  Google archives of the mailing list (a pity, I would much prefer INRIA's
>  archives). I've tried mailing in the past the contact address for the
>  website about that, but I've only got back a mail bounce.
>
>  Cheers.
>
>  --
>  Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what?
>  zack@{upsilon.cc,cs.unibo.it,debian.org}  -<%>-  http://upsilon.cc/zack/
>  (15:56:48)  Zack: e la demo dema ?    /\    All one has to do is hit the
>  (15:57:15)  Bac: no, la demo scema    \/    right keys at the right time
>
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Re: [Caml-list] NaN's in the date field of the mailing list archive

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:29:18PM -0400, Christopher L Conway wrote:
> You mean, I assume, http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml? Oddly,

Yes.

> Google seems to prefer http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list
> (at least in my searches).

Actually I didn't end up there from Google searches, but directly from
the resource page of the Caml web site
(http://caml.inria.fr/resources/forums.en.html) which has a direct link
to http://groups.google.com/groups?group=fa.caml titled "Archives at
Google Groups".

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what?
zack@{upsilon.cc,cs.unibo.it,debian.org}  -<%>-  http://upsilon.cc/zack/
(15:56:48)  Zack: e la demo dema ?    /\    All one has to do is hit the
(15:57:15)  Bac: no, la demo scema    \/    right keys at the right time