-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to jida...@jidanni.org 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. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklv34wACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAYIgCgt07+/14OwsFV1Btilc1Mwk/s mDYAniAZlCOdyRYEFyTFAbvZE6lA3npq =rtEN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
