* lib/mdate-sh: Cope with Darwin's Day/Month/Year output.

Report from Peter O'Gorman.

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/mdate-sh b/lib/mdate-sh
index c1f037a27..a60e7d71b 100755
--- a/lib/mdate-sh
+++ b/lib/mdate-sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Get modification time of a file or directory and pretty-print it.
 
-scriptversion=2005-02-02.22
+scriptversion=2005-02-07.09
 
 # Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc.
@@ -108,13 +108,32 @@ do
 done
 
 # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory.
-set x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
+set dummy x`eval "$ls_command \"\$save_arg1\""`
 
 # Remove all preceding arguments
 eval $command
 
-# Get the month.  Next argument is day, followed by the year or time.
-case $1 in
+# Because of the dummy argument above, month is in $2.
+#
+# On a POSIX system, we should have
+#
+# $# = 5
+# $1 = file size
+# $2 = month
+# $3 = day
+# $4 = year or time
+# $5 = filename
+#
+# On Darwin 7.7.0 and 7.6.0, we have
+#
+# $# = 4
+# $1 = day
+# $2 = month
+# $3 = year or time
+# $4 = filename
+
+# Get the month.
+case $2 in
   Jan) month=January; nummonth=1;;
   Feb) month=February; nummonth=2;;
   Mar) month=March; nummonth=3;;
@@ -129,7 +148,10 @@ case $1 in
   Dec) month=December; nummonth=12;;
 esac
 
-day=$2
+case $# in
+ 4) day=$1;;
+ *) day=$3; shift;;
+esac
 
 # Here we have to deal with the problem that the ls output gives either
 # the time of day or the year.