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From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> 	Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:20:10 0200 -> bad
> 	Date: Mon, 18 Apr 05 15:05:29 Hora oficial do Brasil -> bad
> 	Date: 2002/04/11 18:29:07 -> bad
> 
> The second one is funny. Not just the "Hora oficial do Brasil" (hey, I 
> could add it as a real timezone and my parser would do the right thing ;) 
> but also because my parser decides that "05" is not a year, but the day in 
> the month, so it doesn't see the year.
> 
> I can fake out that year thing pretty easily ("if it starts with '0' it's 
> not a day of the month"), but it does show just how _strange_ stuff 
> there's out there.

And what happens then with the first example?  2008 Apr 2005?


I thought about missing timezones once more.  Don't you think it's
better to default to -0000?  Afaics, it was defined for just these
cases.  Simply appending an arbitrary timezone seems wrong.

Ciao, ET.