From 55c92229a23d43673db6a9f521c6da1c10b99781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Wells <mark@freeside.biz>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 00:44:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix date line on plain text invoices, #28271

---
 FS/FS/Template_Mixin.pm | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/FS/FS/Template_Mixin.pm b/FS/FS/Template_Mixin.pm
index 131a23643..426386b86 100644
--- a/FS/FS/Template_Mixin.pm
+++ b/FS/FS/Template_Mixin.pm
@@ -485,9 +485,14 @@ sub print_generic {
     'quotationnum'    => $self->quotationnum,
     'no_date'         => $params{'no_date'},
     '_date'           => ( $params{'no_date'} ? '' : $self->_date ),
+      # workaround for inconsistent behavior in the early plain text 
+      # templates; see RT#28271
     'date'            => ( $params{'no_date'}
                              ? ''
-                             : $self->time2str_local('long', $self->_date, $format)
+                             : ($format eq 'template'
+                               ? $self->_date
+                               : $self->time2str_local('long', $self->_date, $format)
+                               )
                          ),
     'today'           => $self->time2str_local('long', $today, $format),
     'terms'           => $self->terms,
-- 
2.11.0