From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:08:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Further 'approxidate' improvements
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908222204590.6044@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908221759420.3158@localhost.localdomain>

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