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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Further 'approxidate' improvements
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:08:17 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So trying to date-parse nonsensical crud still gives odd results:
> 
> 	I ate six hot-dogs in June -> Sat Jun  6 18:09:26 2009
> 
> because it parses "six" and "June" and then puts it together as a date, 
> and then adds the current time (and year) and is happy.
> 
> But parsing random things amusingly is a _feature_. Misparsing something 
> that makes sense as a date is a bug.

Maybe that would be a good idea to write a test just for this, so known 
cases making sense aren't accidentally broken by eventual modifications 
to add more such cases.


Nicolas