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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
+\r
+>> if [ -z "${template[date]}" ]; then\r
+>> - template[date]="Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:43:57 +0000"\r
+>> + template[date]=$(date -Ru -d@$((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt)))\r
+>\r
+> I am afraid this is not portable (although not sure). This could work:\r
+>\r
+> _s=$((3599 - gen_msg_cnt))\r
+> template[date]="Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:$((_s / 60)):$((_s % 60)) +0000"\r
+>\r
+\r
+How about this instead?\r
+\r
+diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+index 792e477..22a4d7f 100644\r
+--- a/test/test-lib.sh\r
++++ b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ generate_message ()\r
+ fi\r
+ \r
+ if [ -z "${template[date]}" ]; then\r
+- template[date]=$(date -Ru -d@$((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt)))\r
++ template[date]=$(TZ=UTC printf "%(%a, %d %b %Y %T %z)T\n" \\r
++ $((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt)))\r
+ fi\r
+ \r
+ additional_headers=""\r