Re: date parsing

[Yoni Rabkin Katzenell <yoni-r@actcom.com>]

Thanks, but I think I'll stick to changes that will not disappear next
time I compile Emacs.

Modifying the functions from the calendar dir was is still my last
resort. As for checking that parse-time is really ok, the real test
would be to encode that value that parse-time gives you and then decode
it back to a string and see that they match.

I'll quote from time-date.el:

              ;; `parse-time-string' isn't sufficiently general or
	      ;; robust.  It fails to grok some of the formats that
	      ;; timezone does (e.g. dodgy post-2000 stuff from some
	      ;; Elms) and either fails or returns bogus values.  Lars
	      ;; reverted this change, but that loses non-trivially
	      ;; often for me.  -- fx

Nevertheless, thank you for the cool idea and the time you took to
promptly reply.

-- 
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
	Regards, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell