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Subject: Add support for english date names on non-english systems
From: =?utf-8?q?Jordi_Guti=C3=A9rrez_Hermoso?= <jordigh@octave.org>
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To: "A. Klitzing" <aklitzing@gmail.com>
Cc: mercurial-devel@selenic.com
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:15:22 -0500

On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 12:29 +0100, A. Klitzing wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I attached a new patch with improved commit
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# HG changeset patch
# User André Klitzing <aklitzing@gmail.com>
# Date 1424783533 -3600
#      Tue Feb 24 14:12:13 2015 +0100
# Node ID 619543a27d036264977bd5ca97be688416ce4cc9
# Parent  ff5caa8dfd993680d9602ca6ebb14da9de10d5f4
util: accept "now, today, yesterday" for dates even the locale is not english

Hi there!

Fixed date names are helpful for automated systems. So it is possible to
use english date parameter even if the underlying system uses another
locale.

We have here a jenkins with build jobs on different slaves that will do
some operations with "dates" parameter. Some systems uses English locale
and some systems uses German locale. So we needed to configure the job to
uses other date names.

As this is really annoying to keep the systems locale in mind for some
operations I looked into util.py. It would be helpful for automated systems
if the "default English" date names would even usable on other
locales.

I attached a simple patch for this.

Best regards
  André Klitzing

diff --git a/mercurial/util.py b/mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py
+++ b/mercurial/util.py
@@ -1350,11 +1350,11 @@
         formats = defaultdateformats
     date = date.strip()
 
-    if date == _('now'):
+    if date == 'now' or date == _('now'):
         return makedate()
-    if date == _('today'):
+    if date == 'today' or date == _('today'):
         date = datetime.date.today().strftime('%b %d')
-    elif date == _('yesterday'):
+    elif date == 'yesterday' or date == _('yesterday'):
         date = (datetime.date.today() -
                 datetime.timedelta(days=1)).strftime('%b %d')