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From: Peter Pezaris <pez@dwwc.com>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: 19.15b90: timezone-make-date-sortable fails
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    >> (timezone-make-date-sortable "Thu, 9 Beb 1995 15:09:45 +0200
    >> (EET)") signals

    >> Wrong type argument: numberp, nil

    >> I don't what "Beb" is supposed to be, but timezone shouldn't
    >> throw an error in response to it.

    Steve> Why shouldn't it?  Should it return garbage instead?
    Steve> Emacs 19.34 behaves identically.  steve@miranova.com baur
    Steve> Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be billed at
    Steve> $250/message. Real men aren't afraid to use chains on icy
    Steve> roads.

How about an error message like "Unknown Month" or something.  Is
that too much to ask?

I've found XEmacs in general to have somewhat cryptic error messages
at times.

-Pez

