[devscripts] 03/04: mass-bug: replace call to date -R with strftime()

[James McCoy]

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commit 67a6fbe1c1bb5b8ebbf82bb4cc98ce1bf836991f
Author: Louis Bettens <louis at bettens.info>
Date:   Sat Nov 30 20:55:09 2013 +0100

    mass-bug: replace call to date -R with strftime()
    
    Signed-off-by: James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
---
 scripts/mass-bug.pl | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mass-bug.pl b/scripts/mass-bug.pl
index ad0fa20..247de52 100755
--- a/scripts/mass-bug.pl
+++ b/scripts/mass-bug.pl
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ use strict;
 use Getopt::Long qw(:config gnu_getopt);
 use Text::Wrap;
 use File::Basename;
+use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime);
+
+setlocale(LC_TIME, "C"); # so that strftime is locale independent
 
 my $progname = basename($0);
 $Text::Wrap::columns=70;
@@ -322,8 +325,7 @@ sub mailbts {
     my ($subject, $body, $to, $from) = @_;
 
     if (defined $from) {
-	my $date = `date -R`;
-	chomp $date;
+	my $date = strftime "%a, %d %b %Y %T %z", localtime;
 
 	my $pid = open(MAIL, "|-");
 	if (! defined $pid) {

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