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author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2016-05-28 11:03:35 +0200 |
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committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2016-05-28 11:42:20 +0200 |
commit | 9febc2b238e1e322dce1f94ecbed46d595893b52 (patch) | |
tree | 38137e0585535cb11c4d21d619c612b25609ed7a /apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc | |
parent | b58e2c7c56b1416a343e81f9f80cb1f02c128e25 (diff) |
accept only the expected UTC timezones in date parsing
HTTP/1.1 hardcodes GMT (RFC 7231 §7.1.1.1) and what is good enough for the
internet must be good enough for us™ as we reuse the implementation
internally to parse (most) dates we encounter in various places like the
Release files with their Date and Valid-Until header fields.
Implementing a fully timezone aware parser just feels too hard for no
effective benefit as it would take 5+ years (= until LTS's are out of
fashion) until a repository could use non-UTC dates and expect it to
work. Not counting non-apt implementations which might or might not
only want to encounter UTC here as well.
As a bonus, this eliminates the use of an instance of setlocale in
libapt.
Closes: 819697
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