Re: Date parsing

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
> Take a look at match_multi_number in date.c
> European ordering is preferred when the separator is '.'

Ok, then I'll use . in the future, that's nice :).

> The timezone didn't change. One date is in daylight saving time, the other
> is not. The offset from GMT is different to reflect this.

As Hannes said, no bug there, my mistake.

>> What does the list think about this? Is this "normal"
>> behavior? If not, what (if anything) should we do about it?
>
> There will be flaws in any system that tries to automatically guess the
> format. If there is not already one, perhaps a statement should be added
> to the appropriate documentation describing how to ensure that european
> ordering is used to parse the date.

I think that it should bail out when it encounters "20-01-2008"
instead of automagically going for european notation. Even more
helpfull would be to inform the user that "20.01.2008" is the proper
notation.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier