Problem with localized date

Problem with localized date

[Reiner Steib]

Hi,

in the German language Gnus newsgroup, Ralf Wachinger reported[1] the
following error:

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| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid date: 31.10.2006 15:19:24")
|   signal(error ("Invalid date: 31.10.2006 15:19:24"))
|   error("Invalid date: %s" "31.10.2006 15:19:24")
|   date-to-time("31.10.2006 15:19:24")
|   date-to-day("31.10.2006 15:19:24")
|   days-between("Tue Oct 31 19:05:17 2006" "31.10.2006 15:19:24")
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I can reproduce this when starting Emacs with LC_TIME="de_DE" and the
following Gnus settings:

(setq gnus-article-time-format "%c"
 gnus-treat-date-user-defined 'head
 gnus-treat-date-lapsed nil
 gnus-treat-hide-boring-headers 'head)
(add-to-list 'gnus-boring-article-headers 'date)

The following patch seems to solve this problem (I will install it in
v5-10 and trunk soon).  Does anyone see a problem with this change or
a better fix?

Bye, Reiner.

[1]
,----[ <62d28b565625f9a68fcb42586ec8e9b1@wachinger.fqdn.th-h.de> ]
| From: Ralf Wachinger <rwnewsmampfer (at) geekmail.de>
| Subject: Benutzerdefinierte Anzeige des Date-Headers
| Newsgroups: de.comm.software.gnus
| Date: 31 Oct 2006 18:43:14 GMT
| Message-ID: <62d28b565625f9a68fcb42586ec8e9b1@wachinger.fqdn.th-h.de>
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