From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:25:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Export parse_date_basic() to convert a date string to timestamp
Message-ID: <20100715172506.GA23989@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1279210984-31604-2-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> approxidate() is not appropriate for reading machine-written dates
> because it guesses instead of erroring out on malformed dates.
> parse_date() is less convenient since it returns its output as a
> string.  So export the underlying function that writes a timestamp.
> 
> While at it, change the return value to match the usual convention:
> return 0 for success and -1 for failure.

Junio: I think this should be ejected from the series as an
independently useful cleanup.

Currently parse_date_toffset() is exported but not declared anywhere.
This patch gives it a more predictable API and adds a declaration.

Ram: thanks for the reminder.