Re: Teach "approxidate" about weekday syntax

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 18, 2005, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511180857170.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0511180806550.25159@shark.he.net>

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

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> ~Randy  [who would just use ISO standard date format]

That actually _does_ work, and has done so since the beginning:

   [torvalds@g5 git]$ ./test-date "2005-11-02 14:45:00"
   2005-11-02 14:45:00 -> 1130971500 -0800 -> Wed Nov  2 14:45:00 2005
   2005-11-02 14:45:00 -> Wed Nov  2 14:45:00 2005

ie both the exact and the fuzzy date parsing will happily accept ISO standard date format and exact times.

But when you want to know what happened since high tea yesterday, the fuzzy format is unbeatable.

			Linus