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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] date parsing: be friendlier to our European friends.
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:54:02 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> This does three things, only applies to cases where the user
> manually tries to override the author/commit time by environment
> variables, with non-ISO, non-2822 format date-string:
>
>  - Refuses to use the interpretation to put the date in the
>    future; recent kernel history has a commit made with
>    10/03/2006 which is recorded as October 3rd.
>
>  - Adds '.' as the possible year-month-date separator.  We
>    learned from our European friends on the #git channel that
>    dd.mm.yyyy is the norm there.
>
>  - When the separator is '.', we prefer dd.mm.yyyy over
>    mm.dd.yyyy; otherwise mm/dd/yy[yy] takes precedence over
>    dd/mm/yy[yy].

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.