Thu Aug  7 04:41:45 UTC 2008  Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>
  * Handle old date formats
  
  Very old darcs commits use a different time format, that leaks out in some
  operations like annotate. This patch makes darcsweb able to handle it.
  
  Thanks to Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> for the report and the help.
  
diff -rN -u old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi
--- old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2014-07-15 08:29:06.000000000 +0000
+++ new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2014-07-15 08:29:06.000000000 +0000
@@ -292,6 +292,21 @@
 	lf.close()
 
 
+def parse_darcs_time(s):
+	"Try to convert a darcs' time string into a Python time tuple."
+	try:
+		return time.strptime(s, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
+	except ValueError:
+		# very old darcs commits use a different format, for example:
+		# "Wed May 21 19:39:10 CEST 2003"
+		# we can't parse the "CEST" part reliably, so we leave it out
+		fmt = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"
+		parts = s.split()
+		ns = ' '.join(parts[0:4]) + ' ' + parts[5]
+		return time.strptime(ns, fmt)
+
+
+
 #
 # generic html functions
 #
@@ -733,8 +748,7 @@
 				au = au[:au.find('<')].strip()
 			p.shortauthor = fixu8(escape(au))
 
-			td = time.strptime(attrs.get('date', None),
-					"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
+			td = parse_darcs_time(attrs.get('date', None))
 			p.date = time.mktime(td)
 			p.date_str = time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", td)
 
@@ -994,8 +1008,7 @@
 	lastname = lastname.childNodes[0].wholeText
 	annotate.lastchange_name = fixu8(lastname)
 
-	lastdate = lastpatch.getAttribute("date")
-	lastdate = time.strptime(lastdate, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
+	lastdate = parse_darcs_time(lastpatch.getAttribute("date"))
 	annotate.lastchange_date = lastdate
 
 	annotate.patches[annotate.lastchange_hash] = annotate.lastchange_date
@@ -1017,7 +1030,7 @@
 			phash = patch.getAttribute("hash")
 			pauthor = patch.getAttribute("author")
 			pdate = patch.getAttribute("date")
-			pdate = time.strptime(pdate, "%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
+			pdate = parse_darcs_time(pdate)
 		else:
 			# added lines inherit the creation from the annotate
 			# patch