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

"C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

> You're not paying attention. =) The locale information is used for both
> input and output (see 'man strptime' for example).

strptime is extremely limited, since it only handles whatever it's
been told to. It assumes a "one format for input, one format for
output" mode. As a user, you may want to use "yesterday",
"2000-12-32", 12-June-2001, and other things in the same command
line.

The problem with using LC_TIME is that you may want the system to
interpret [0-9][0-9][/-][0-9][0-9][/-][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] on entry as
MM/DD/YYYY, but see YYYY-MM-DD in output. How do you specify that
with LC_TIME? Furthermore, how do you specify the formatting at all
with LC_TIME, other than finding a locale that happens to do what you
want?

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Nice guys don't finish nice.
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