Re: faster gnus-thread-latest-date

[Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

>> I don't know from where this was Cc'd, as I only got the Cc address
>> without a To.
>
> Sorry, it's from ding@gnus.org, which I read via
> gmane.emacs.gnus.general.  That might have been put in the Newsgroups
> header, but I understand why that might have been confusing.  This post
> is the same.

Sort of sorry from me.  I forget when I'm reading stuff at work that it
comes through the magnificent MS Exchange, which not only mangles
headers, but also bodies.  `Newsgroups' was actually there in the
original, so it wasn't Gnus' fault.

> Well, I guess we shouldn't apply the date-to-time patch then, although
> it would be better if we really knew what the problem was and could fix
> it without slowing things down by a factor of 4.

Sorry I didn't stash an example but, especially as I made the change on
2000-01-06, I'm pretty sure the problematic dates I found were just
double-digit years, though there are doubtless others.  Maybe it's
enough to check for nulls in (in?)appropriate places in the result of
parse-time-string?