Re: [imapsync] BAD parse error: invalid digit in date string

[Gilles LAMIRAL <gilles dot lamiral at laposte dot net>]

Hello Phil,

> This seems to be a feature of Date::Manip v6.  See:
>   http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Manip/lib/Date/Manip/Changes5to6.pod
>
>   %z format
>     In Date::Manip 5.xx, the %z format would give an offset in the form: 
> -0500. Now it gives it in the form: -05:00:00

I've sent a bug report to Date::Manip bug list, imapsync@ in CC.

> At a quick glance, it appears the author didn't provide any mechanism to 
> output the IMAP required format but I may have missed something.

No this change is clearly a mistake, made like this:
"this format %z doesn't look pretty good to me, I'm the current coder, I change it".
(May be I'm wrong, we'll see).

Another problem with Date::Manip.
I don't know if the Carp::confess is still used in Date::Manip, I was
surprised a module decided to die my script on a very small problem.
The workaround is:

  local *Carp::confess = sub { return undef; };

My code is ugly but that's not always my fault :-)

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