From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:31:07 GMT Subject: Re: Date parsing Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Brandon Casey 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. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier