From 401c6cc5793331773c0230e8ae00e8c4b0c63a5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:24:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] notmuch_parse_date: Handle a NULL date string gracefully.

The obvious thing to do is to treat a missing date as the beginning
of time. Also, remove a useless cast from another return of 0.
---
 date.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index 7fdbb710..3f337c96 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -643,12 +643,15 @@ notmuch_parse_date (const char *str, int *tz_offset)
 {
 	date_token *token, *tokens;
 	time_t date;
-	
+
+	if (str == NULL)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (!(tokens = datetok (str))) {
 		if (tz_offset)
 			*tz_offset = 0;
 		
-		return (time_t) 0;
+		return 0;
 	}
 	
 	if (!(date = parse_rfc822_date (tokens, tz_offset)))