Bug#833433: jessie-pu: package flashplugin-nonfree/1:3.6.1+deb8u1
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 18:18:01 +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:19:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:38:34 +0200, Bart Martens wrote:
> >
> > > + if [ "`stat --format=%y $cachedir/get-upstream-version.pl`" \< "2016-08-04 09:35" ]
> >
> > Not sure about using string comparison for comparing dates. And is stat
> > --format=%y's output stable across locales etc?
>
> Yes, see function human_time in src/stat.c in coreutils.
>
The current code is not a guarantee for the future. The function is
named "human_time". That makes it IMO wrong to use in a script. It's
also not stable across timezones.
Cheers,
Julien
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