From 558dbe1cbef23cc2ccb05e70f5b0e3db9fb497b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:53:35 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Don't accept totally bogus dates

Yanmin Zhang committed a patch (09f2724a786f76475ef2985cf84f5359c553aade)
which claims to have been written in August, 2030.  Code that bleeding-edge
makes gitdm confused, so pretend it's just normal, contemporary stuff.
---
 gitdm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitdm b/gitdm
index 6c05745..20ec257 100755
--- a/gitdm
+++ b/gitdm
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from patterns import *
 class patch:
     pass
 
-
+Today = datetime.date.today()
 #
 # Control options.
 #
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ def grabpatch():
         if m:
             dt = rfc822.parsedate(m.group (2))
             p.date = datetime.date (dt[0], dt[1], dt[2])
+            if p.date > Today:
+                sys.stderr.write ('Funky date: %s\n' % p.date)
+                p.date = Today
             continue
         #
         # If we have a file filter, check for file lines.
-- 
2.39.5