Wed, 07 Jan 2004

Another Blosxom patch in a revised Debian package

Turns out that the previous patch didn't cut it quite yet -- GMT was hardcoded as a timezone. Debian merrily refuses to give in to ugly environment variables like TZ -- so the timezone is harder to get. Ivo Timmerman pointed out that there is a timezone plugin at the blosxom website. It only sets TZ to a pre-configurable variable though.

So I quickly added three more lines to call tzset and tzname, and now assign a tz variable which can be used in the rss format. One minor annoyance is that the setting itself is still in the flavour file /usr/share/blosxom/timezone -- so I dpkg-divert'ed mine.

If you see this via rss aggregation at planetdebian, it should show with a time of very early in the (UTC) morning whereas I type this at 21:00h Chicago time.

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Blosxom rss patch in new Debian package

The patch by Matt Howard that was reposted by Ivo Timmerman just went into the 2.0-3 revision of the blosxom package. A minor man page fix is also included.

By the way, if someone wants to take over maintaining blosxom for Debian, drop me line.

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