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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] support for generating decreasing dates in bash 4.0\r
+ and 4.1\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> The printf builtin "%(fmt)T" specifier (which allows time values\r
+> to use strftime-like formatting) is introduced in bash 4.2.\r
+>\r
+> Trying to execute this in pre-4.2 bash will fail -- and if this\r
+> happens execute the fallback piece of perl code to do the same \r
+\r
+pushed.\r
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+d\r