From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:00:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Teach "approxidate" about weekday syntax
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:
>
> ~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