From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] date parsing: be friendlier to our European friends. Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:26:07 +0100 Message-ID: <1152872768.3191.58.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <7vodzg4l5n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060404231606.219a4cc5.akpm@osdl.org> <7virpo4jxf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vlkujzly0.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vhd57zl9x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 14 12:26:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1KsP-00031J-Dz for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:26:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161027AbWGNK00 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:26:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161028AbWGNK00 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:26:26 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:57240 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161027AbWGNK0Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:26:25 -0400 Received: from pmac.infradead.org ([81.187.2.168]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.62 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1G1KsJ-0007tb-Ai; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:26:23 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vhd57zl9x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.6.dwmw2.1) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:54 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Before the list gets useless comments, the code prefer to accept > more sensible and/or unambiguous forms, such as ISO or RFC2822. > The issue this addresses is what to do when we get other forms. Rejecting them and demanding unambiguous forms is better than silently getting it wrong. -- dwmw2