Re: Date can dish it out, but not parse it back in

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 1/15/2009 9:50 AM:
> Date can dish it out, but not parse it back in, for other languages:

Thanks for the report.  However, this is a known design limitation - there
is no way to write a generic date parser that can parse all localized date
strings, so we can only parse non-localized strings (such as ISO formats)
and common C locale strings (which happen to be mostly English, sorry
about that).  But it would be nice if someone wanted to write a new option
to date, perhaps named --strptime, which calls strptime on the counterpart
date string given a formatting argument that looks similar to what the +
option passes on to strftime.  That way, the user can bypass the
generalized date parser in favor of a localized parser that understands
the user's preferred format.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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