1.0.5 bug: expiration date displaying bug

[David R. Bergstein]

Frank,

I just saw your post in the gnupg-devel list archives at
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2001-April/005941.html -
similar problems have recently been observed for recent dates on my keyring
and that of another gnupg user (see
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2001-May/008392.html).  Here is
a facsimile of my observations for two of my public keys that I expired
earlier this year:

Under gnupg v1.04:

C:\TEMP>gpg --edit-key dbergst@phoenixdsl.com
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.4-1; Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Secret key is available.

gpg: key 460A4F20.64: expired at 02/15/01 20:14:20
pub  1024D/460A4F20  created: 2000-10-07 expires: 2001-02-16
trust: f/e
sub  1024g/4246C4D6  created: 2000-10-07 expires: never
(1)  David R. Bergstein <dbergst@phoenixdsl.com>


Under gnupg v1.05 it appears to still be an active key (see
expiration date!):

C:\TEMP>gpg --edit-key dbergst@phoenixdsl.com
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.5; Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Secret key is available.

pub  1024D/460A4F20  created: 2000-10-07 expires: 2001-06-20
trust: -/u
sub  1024g/4246C4D6  created: 2000-10-07 expires: never
(1). David R. Bergstein <dbergst@phoenixdsl.com>

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I was able to duplicate this behavior in both the win32 (Win2k) and linux
(2.4.3) environments.  The incorrect dates were displayed the same way in
all cases, including using keys imported locally and from keyservers.  When
I reloaded gnupg v1.04, the correct expiration dates were displayed.


David R. Bergstein
Systems Engineer and Blues Musician - http://members.home.net/dbergstein/
Heart of Blue - bookings on-line at http://www.heartofblue.com
GnuPG Public Key 0x56A3E687 - For info see http://www.gnupg.org
Key fingerprint = 3756 CCF2 8D82 ADDE 61F2  2A5A 2CEB EB09 56A3 E687