From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52209: 28.0.60; [PATCH] date-to-time fails on pure dates Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: <875yrjpp03.fsf@gnus.org> References: <7c22f300-eedb-da65-db02-e82025ec2f48@cs.ucla.edu> <25023.40959.627321.685762@orion.rgrjr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32682"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka , Paul Eggert , 52209@debbugs.gnu.org To: Bob Rogers Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 21 05:09:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWT4-0008HF-57 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=xo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mzWRv-0002n8-1Z for 52209@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:08:29 +0100 Resent-X-Now-Playing: Heidi Berry's _Love_: "Gloria" Resent-To: 52209@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:08:26 +0100 Resent-Message-ID: <87v8zilhvp.fsf@gnus.org> X-From-Line: nobody Mon Dec 20 11:08:48 2021 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAgMAAAAqbBEUAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAACBj SFJNAAB6JgAAgIQAAPoAAACA6AAAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF3CculE8AAAACVBMVEWOoVlMZDn///9k 6/PIAAAAAWJLR0QCZgt8ZAAAAAd0SU1FB+UMFAkxCrmP2HsAAAFESURBVCjPRVFBDuQwCDNSuKdS +A+RmjuR4P9fWdMd7ebSOAZsXIBnYMx4+yaJwFCYF1xLHJgVFkBV34HFqvhAQJdpg5KA8N1gBLvu hChbiE7VADzZTxJKPpsi5lTJU2BJ1fW20c+ZJBKmG/1uFbRDvUFRspcjEl7q99btVpSr63cl6DW0 fiBi/gf3vp/L5iGie44pY9LBddHRJw73L31YMrjsYAZ7TpGXlYKzG4BgDepsVfEnpy+cDorlPInn S7LjqPjikr+aDHH/qrT4fhw/N9zH//UUZt7AuxSHJcnUOhjoFrIJPQd4juEpH0+q49HLELGYVFXr VI6VztC6hy0fEebajE2qs06Qiz1ZVLj0PXzFsqAx/tNB49PcMKzLqMjkocYPg5DqZV6UTs4+QiOL FsM5zSlEvz73sAeRjEq5txqTnbA/cGxYvOKgEBwAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6Y3JlYXRlADIwMjEtMTIt MjBUMDk6NDk6MTArMDA6MDDZqP18AAAAJXRFWHRkYXRlOm1vZGlmeQAyMDIxLTEyLTIwVDA5OjQ5 OjEwKzAwOjAwqPVFwAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Now-Playing: Forest's _Strange Folk_: "Fading Light" In-Reply-To: <25023.40959.627321.685762@orion.rgrjr.com> (Bob Rogers's message of "Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:11:27 -0500") Original-Lines: 21 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:222836 Archived-At: Bob Rogers writes: > Since Emacs time functions have evolved well beyond email, I would argue > that even "rfc-email-" is too specific a prefix for them. So if this > patch is not suitable, maybe it's (cough, cough) time for a new time and > date parsing API that supports a broader range of human-generated dates > and times, with better error handling and I18N support. WDYT? Yes, I think we should stop futzing around with `parse-time-string' and instead create a new well-defined library with a signature like: (parse-time "2020-01-15T16:12:21-08:00" 'iso-8601) (parse-time "1/4-2" 'us-date) (parse-time "Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:12:21 -0800" 'rfc822) etc. (And yes, I know the latter is a superseded standard, but it's the one people know.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no