Bug#486594: timestamps

[Louis Bettens]

Good evening developers,
I'm a novice contributor and I have done some work on your scripts, 
which I would like to submit to you.

I didn't found any library that can produce d/changelog files, so I 
decided to invoke dch with the right options, besides it can manage 
multi-maintainer releases, and since this feature is hardcoded, I 
thought there was no library supporting it at all. I needed to create 
entries with specific timestamps, so I started hacking dch to implement 
an option for that.

Since there seems to be no way to feed a "%s" value to date, I decided 
to use strftime(), and thus get rid of the date -R invocation. It seems 
to me that globally setting the locale to "C" doesn't cause trouble 
("dch Ìnîtíãl release." is fine) but I may be wrong. However, there 
could be a better solution with the Email::Date::Format package ; it 
takes care of formatting time according to RFC 2822 and doesn't touch 
the locale. It does exactly what we want in a clean way, so it's 
probably worth depending on it.

Please take time to judge the attached patches. If you ask, I can 
rearrange them, removing the intermediate step `date` -> strftime() -> 
email_date, for example. I didn't update the changelog (no joke 
intended) to keep patches light.

Greetings,
Louis
-- 
When I grow up,
I will run a Tor node around the clock,
To help threatened protesters 'round the world.
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