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Re: sorting by date within subject?

#442
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:45
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gst@spdcc.com (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:

>I find that (using the default "subject" sorting order) the order of articles
>within each subject is essentially random, as far as I can tell.

This is often due to a bug in pack_date which causes time zone info to
be mis-applied.  Most of this bug will be patched when NN 6.4.19 comes
out.  If you can't wait until then, here's a quick workaround:

*** nn6.4.16/pack_date.c	1991/04/17 08:32:40
--- nn-patch/pack_date.c	1992/12/17 14:42:56
***************
*** 256,262 ****
      res *= 24 * 60;
      res += (hour * 60) + min;
  
!     return res + tzone(date);
  }
  
  
--- 256,262 ----
      res *= 24 * 60;
      res += (hour * 60) + min;
  
!     return res - tzone(date);
  }
  
  
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