From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tino Calancha Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21229: 24.5; parse-time-string ignore PM/AM Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:36 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: References: <83h9o7oxvh.fsf@gnu.org> <83egjbox3d.fsf@gnu.org> <87oaieb4y0.fsf@members.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439358206 15654 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2015 05:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tino Calancha , Andreas Schwab , 21229@debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Richard To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 12 07:43:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOoh-00010U-Gr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:43:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOog-00025V-FK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36521) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOoc-00025P-9I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOoY-0002ij-2A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:33299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOoX-0002iH-UP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOoX-0006Lc-KO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:43:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Tino Calancha Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:43:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21229 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21229-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21229.143935815824363 (code B ref 21229); Wed, 12 Aug 2015 05:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21229) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Aug 2015 05:42:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53742 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOo9-0006Kt-PO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from calancha-ilc.kek.jp ([130.87.234.234]:33375) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPOo7-0006Kk-2W for 21229@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from calancha-ilc.kek.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by calancha-ilc.kek.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BF472D7; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:37 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] by BitDefender SMTP Proxy on localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] for localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:37 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by calancha-ilc.kek.jp (Postfix, from userid 500) id 28EFF7F9F; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calancha-ilc.kek.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1C772D7; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:36 +0900 (JST) X-X-Sender: calancha@calancha-ilc.kek.jp In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LRH 67 2015-01-07) X-BitDefender-Scanner: Mail not scanned due to license constraints X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:105425 Archived-At: At some point one decision (order to support) should be taken because MM DD need to be identified: 07-11, november 7th? Maybe July 11th? My propose is support date +%F (%Y-%m-%d already in vanilla emacs) and date +%D (%m/%d/%y) It is straightforward to extend my previous patch adding one rule to support: %m/%d/%Y (%Y instead of %y) I think that cover enough date formats. I understand is hard to remember if %m/%d/%y or %d/%m/%y is supported: the documentation string of parse-time-string should be updated to clearly point out what input strings are valid. Tino On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> It should be possible to add support for: >>> "%m/%d/%y" >> What about "%d/%m/%y"? > > Indeed. I already bumped into such problems with parse-time-string > where it seemed to return a completely bogus result until I realized > that it picked a different ordering from the one I had. > > The problem exists for "a-b-c" as well, tho I can't remember ever seeing > "YYYY-DD-MM" nor "MM-DD-YYYY" so if the year is spelled out as 4 digits, > the "a-b-c" format is somewhat reliable (at least within my part of the > world). > > > Stefan >