[PATCH 0/2] approxidate and future ISO-like times

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On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:36:06AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:27:06AM +1100, Colin Smith wrote:
> 
> > Apologies if this has already been raised or PEBCAK, but I've noticed
> > a bug where git log with certain date ranges breaks things. It appears
> > to be any --since date with a --until date in the future between
> > 2014-12-01 and 2014-12-09. Dates from 2014-12-10 appear to work, and
> > so does the date 2015-12-01.
> 
> Ugh. Approxidate strikes again:
> 
>   for i in 2014-11-01 2013-12-01 2014-12-01; do
>     ./test-date approxidate $i
>   done
> 
> produces:
> 
>   2014-11-01 -> 2014-11-01 09:35:19 +0000
>   2013-12-01 -> 2013-12-01 09:35:19 +0000
>   2014-12-01 -> 2014-01-12 09:35:19 +0000
> 
> The first two are right, but the fourth one is not.  It's probably
> something simple and stupid.

Less simple and stupid than I thought, but I think I have a fix. It is
not about December specifically, but about the date being in the future.
The first patch is a cleanup to help us more accurately test the bug;
the interesting bits are in the second one.

  [1/2]: pass TIME_DATE_NOW to approxidate future-check
  [2/2]: approxidate: allow ISO-like dates far in the future

-Peff
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