From b421f00a05dba82d6c3df6dcb6ae9063c5395b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:29:38 +0800
Subject: test: give unique timestamps to messages

The choice of decreasing timestamps is a hack which reduces the number
of existing tests which fail.  This can be changed to increasing
if/when somebody wants update another 47 tests.
---
 test/test-lib.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'test/test-lib.sh')

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=""
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