Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > The comment associated with the date parsing code for three > numbers separated with slashes or dashes implied we wanted to > interpret using this order: > > yyyy-mm-dd > yyyy-dd-mm > mm-dd-yy > dd-mm-yy > > However, the actual code had the last two wrong, and making it > prefer dd-mm-yy format over mm-dd-yy. But there was a second problem. Once the parsing had misbehaved, Len managed to create a commit which was six months in the future: commit 8313524a0d466f451a62709aaedf988d8257b21c Author: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 3 00:00:00 2006 -0400 ACPI: ACPICA 20060310 Will your fix prevent that from happening? If not, perhaps some basic sanity checking might be appropriate. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html