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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#52525: wanted to add option to date command to handle pure numeric input in varying ways and output for invalid dates |
Date: | Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:37:46 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.1 |
On 12/15/21 14:24, Mike Marchywka wrote:
if date is going to be a swiss army knife for date conversions it makes some sense to allow user selection of ambiguity resolution doesn't it?
There are thousands of possible data conversions and I'm not sure we want to head down the road of trying to handle them all.
That being said, this particular conversion might be worth the trouble. However, 'date' uses the same date parser that a lot of other GNU programs do. Surely if there's a change to be made to date parsing it should be made there, not just to 'date', so that all the other programs can use the new functionality.
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