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| -rw-r--r-- | test/test-lib.sh | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh index d22408d8..53cb9475 100644 --- a/test/test-lib.sh +++ b/test/test-lib.sh @@ -356,7 +356,11 @@ generate_message () fi if [ -z "${template[date]}" ]; then - template[date]="Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:43:57 +0000" + # we use decreasing timestamps here for historical reasons; + # the existing test suite when we converted to unique timestamps just + # happened to have signicantly fewer failures with that choice. + template[date]=$(TZ=UTC printf "%(%a, %d %b %Y %T %z)T\n" \ + $((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt))) fi additional_headers="" |