Re: parsing time stamp

[Kevin Rodgers]

Johan Bockgård wrote:
> Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > is there a function that parses a timestamp like “Monday, Nov. 28,
> > 1994” so that i can write a function to turn it into the format yyyy-
> > mm-dd?
>
> parse-time-string

(parse-time-string "Monday, Nov. 28, 1994")
=> (nil nil nil 28 11 1994 nil nil nil)

Odd that the leading "Monday, " yields nil DOW...  It turns out that is
due to the fact that the parse-time-weekdays variable only has
abbreviations (e.g. "mon"), just like parse-time-months.  Easy to fix:

(let ((parse-time-weekdays (append parse-time-weekdays
                                   '(("sunday" . 0)
                                     ("monday" . 1)
                                     ("tuesday" . 2)
                                     ("wednesday" . 3)
                                     ("thursday" . 4)
                                     ("friday" . 5)
                                     ("saturday" . 6)))))
  (parse-time-string "Monday, Nov. 28, 1994"))
=> (nil nil nil 28 11 1994 1 nil nil)

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA