Re: gnus-search since: not working for nnimap

[Eric Abrahamsen]

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

> 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))

Ooh, that's a great catch, thank you very much. I'll look around and see
if there are any other similar issues in this library, and push a fix to
master soon.

Thanks for the report,
Eric