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diff --git a/toys/patch.c b/toys/patch.c
index 41371a3e..b1f8d413 100644
--- a/toys/patch.c
+++ b/toys/patch.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ config PATCH
a file when all all hunks to that file apply. Patch prints failed
hunks to stderr, and exits with nonzero status if any hunks fail.
- A file compared against /dev/null (or with a date in 1969) is
+ A file compared against /dev/null (or with a date <= the epoch) is
created/deleted as appropriate.
*/
@@ -229,12 +229,15 @@ void patch_main(void)
// Open a new file?
if (!strncmp("--- ", patchline, 4)) {
char *s;
+ int i;
+
free(TT.oldname);
// Trim date from end of filename (if any). We don't care.
for (s = patchline+4; *s && *s!='\t'; s++)
if (*s=='\\' && s[1]) s++;
- if (!strncmp(s, "\t1969-12-31", 10))
+ i = atoi(s);
+ if (i && i<=1970)
TT.oldname = xstrdup("/dev/null");
else {
*s = 0;