[rt-users] change of due date via mailgate

[Kazu Kimura]

Thanks for the follow up.

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:42:32 -0800
Eric Goodman <ericg at cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:


> [Resend now that Jesse points out that mail is again working --- Eric]
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am checking mailgate interface and found strange thing.
> >- - - - - - - - - return from RT - - - - - - - - -
> >Thank you for taking some action:
> >
> >>  %rt user kimura
> >RT: Username kimura noticed.
> >>  pass ***** RT: You are now authenticated as kimura.
> >>  %rt set due 4 11/09/00
> >RT: Date due changed to Thu, Jan 1 1970 09:00:00 (53)
> >
> >
> >This is regarded as Unix's start date, I believe.  So, the input 
> >will be wrong with FreeBSD4.1.  This also happens in the format 
> >11/09/2000.
> >
> >Does somebody know correct date format for this?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Kazu
> 
> I've sent this out a couple of times on this list, but I haven't been 
> good enough to actually post a patch. I should have checked with 
> Jesse as to whether this fix is in 1.0.5 when he called for comments, 
> but I was out (offline) sick. Here's the deal with date due in at 
> least the older RT versions:
> 
> 
> >There is a bug in rt/lib/rt/ui/mail/manipulate.pm in the "SET due" 
> >handler. The function call
> >
> >   ($trans, $message)=
> >       &rt::change_due_date($serial_no, $date_due, $current_user);
> >
> >is wrong. The second argument should be "$due_date", not "$date_due".
> >
> >Also, there's another minor error in the "date_parse" routine in 
> >rt/lib/rt/support/utils.pm. This routine will parse, e.g., 4/30/00 
> >to $month=4, $day=30, $year=2000, but timelocal (to which this value 
> >is later passed) expects months counting from 0, so most of the 
> >"$month = $n" statements should really be "$month = $n - 1".
> 
> If someone will point me to a primer on creating "patch" utils (I'm 
> sure it's easy but I just haven't done it before), and if Jesse says 
> it's not fixed in 1.0.5, I can spend some time to create and submit a 
> more formal patch.
> 
> I know that these problems are being addressed in 2.0, I just don't 
> know about versions of 1.0.x.
> 
> --- Eric
> 
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