Re: gnus-search since: not working for nnimap

[Julien Cubizolles]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> 'gnus-search-transform seems to be at fault here. It uses
> '(format-time-string "%e-%b-%Y") where %b returns the "locale’s
> abbreviated month name" when imap commands expects the english abbreviated
> month name.

It's working with the attached patch. I'm not sure this is the best way
to go but I'm happy with it.

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-search.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-search.el
index 27c71fa6c6..0d9a62f911 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-search.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-search.el
@@ -1330,9 +1330,10 @@ elements are present."
                      (1- nyear)
                    nyear))
          (setq dmonth 1))))
-    (format-time-string
-     "%e-%b-%Y"
-     (encode-time 0 0 0 dday dmonth dyear))))
+    (with-locale-environment "C"
+      (format-time-string
+       "%e-%b-%Y"
+       (encode-time 0 0 0 dday dmonth dyear)))))
 
 (cl-defmethod gnus-search-imap-handle-string ((engine gnus-search-imap)
                                              (str string))

-- 
Julien Cubizolles