Searching "Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:28:27 -0400" fails to obtain date

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Searching "Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:28:27 -0400" fails to obtain date

glenstewart opened this issue 2 years ago · 3 comments

Great tool - thanks for working on it! I ran into one condition where it seemingly should work, but doesn't:

These are simple, small HTML files...
1.htm: "text": "Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:28:27 -0400",
20.htm: "text": "Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:27:29 -0500",
7.htm: "text": "Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:33:56 PST",

datefinder returns an empty result, using the latest code obtained with pip.

Answer 1 · 2023-01-15T20:29:13.000Z

It's the prefix "Date: " that's causing the problem. "Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:28:27 -0400" itself works fine.

So odd.

Answer 2 · 2023-02-06T14:29:01.000Z

I can reproduce this as well. It is the string "Date" followed by colon ":" anywhere in the string that seems to be the issue. With colon and String "Date" separately anywhere else, the results are as expected.

Answer 3 · 2023-10-23T10:12:54.000Z

generated At Time 2023-10-23T08:20:02+00:00 on same too.