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| author | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> | 1996-05-28 15:42:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> | 1996-05-28 15:42:20 +0000 |
| commit | 96d50ecc6fd0c53f986ce4309b0383c34f1a44e7 (patch) | |
| tree | acb1ba2604c2d055d9160e82088f2795c88ea52b /lisp/gnus.el | |
| parent | feeb890e99e1435f3d312e1eff872b346249d42b (diff) | |
| download | emacs-96d50ecc6fd0c53f986ce4309b0383c34f1a44e7.tar.gz | |
* gnus.el (gnus-article-date-ut): Avoid race condition.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/gnus.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/gnus.el | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/gnus.el b/lisp/gnus.el index 8086864db4a..74a6ed20a18 100644 --- a/lisp/gnus.el +++ b/lisp/gnus.el @@ -11287,12 +11287,16 @@ how much time has lapsed since DATE." ((eq type 'lapsed) ;; If the date is seriously mangled, the timezone ;; functions are liable to bug out, so we condition-case - ;; the entire thing. - (let* ((real-sec (condition-case () + ;; the entire thing. We call (current-time) once, rather than + ;; letting current-time-string and current-time-zone default to + ;; it, because that avoids a rare race condition when the time + ;; zone changes between those two calls. + (let* ((now (current-time)) + (real-sec (condition-case () (- (gnus-seconds-since-epoch (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard - (current-time-string) - (current-time-zone) "UT")) + (current-time-string now) + (current-time-zone now) "UT")) (gnus-seconds-since-epoch (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard date nil "UT"))) |