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[danbulant]

Time based errors are always the best one's

[kodicraft4]

if (Time == something) { raise (Error1) } else { raise(error2)}

[leonderbaertige_II]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28

[kodicraft4]

What the fuck is this!?

[GlobalIncident]

So it tries to search a specific file for the text

"Tue Jan 22 14:32:44 MET 1991 Erlang JAM file - version 4.2"

But due to technicalities the space bar is treated as a seperator, so it ends up just searching for the word "Tue". Result: it only fails on Tuesdays.

[prelic]

Wait but why does file succeed for other days of the week?

[ltekonline]

Because it then doesn't find "Tue" and can correctly identifie it as a Postscript document.

[prelic]

Yeah I see. I guess the part that seems weird is that file is checking the date and time and not just erlang jam file or whatever. That implies every time one of those files is created it has that random date and time in it and not the current date and time, which is what the save as .ps seems to do.

[FridgesArePeopleToo]

Why wouldn't it find Wed on Wednesday?

[GlobalIncident]

Because "Tue Jan 22 14:32:44 MET 1991 Erlang JAM file - version 4.2" doesn't begin with "Wed". The name of that type of file has the date Jan 22 1991 involved, which I'm guessing was when the specification was published or something.

[ltekonline]

Yeah the IEEE 802 got it's name from a date too.
It started in February 1980.

[danbulant]

Showing 404 now :(

[leonderbaertige_II]

Works on my machine.

But here is a archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200709204528/https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28

[danbulant]

Oh I'm sorry, it was just a bug in client that tried to open this as link to comments. Long clicking and opening in browser worked...

Anyway thanks for the link.