Re: date parsing on "bite-sized tasks" list

> in the message thread linked to from the "date parsing" item on the
> "bite-sized tasks" list, it is mentioned that localization is
> important, and that support for ambiguous date formats should be
> eliminated.

It is ambiguous both what "localization" means and what "ambiguous
date formats" means.

For localization: the meaning of X/Y/Z depends on locale, but in a
more mundane sense, the word for "January" is not the same in every
language.

For ambiguous date formats: X/Y/Z is ambiguous because it means
different things in different locales, but our current date parsing
function also accepts some really off the wall things like "7" which
have no canonical meaning in any locale.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:36 2006