> On 24 Dec 2015, at 00:50, Zefram (via RT) <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Zefram > # Please include the string: [perl #127008] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127008 > > > > The documentation for Date.new says that when given a string input the > string is to be in ISO 8601 format. In fact it accepts many kinds of > non ISO 8601 strings: > > "1-01-01" (too few year digits) > "2000-1-1" (too few month and day digits) > "2000- 01-01" (illegal spaces) > "-01-01" (no year digits) > "2000-0\x[666]-01" (non-ASCII digit) > "2000.5-01-01" (illegal fraction) > "2000-001-001" (too many month and day digits) > "2000-+01-+01" (sign on month and day) > > The documentation doesn't actually say that an exception will be thrown > when it is given an invalid string input, but it doesn't give any clue > as to how non ISO 8601 input would be parsed. Some regexp-based syntax > checking would be welcome here. > > Bearing in mind your response to [perl #127002], perhaps you intend to > accept some strings that are not in ISO 8601 format, but the range that > is accepted here goes beyond "liberal in what you accept". Many of these > strings are quite some distance away from being ISO 8601. Whatever you > intend to accept, it would also be wise to document explicitly what > happens with non ISO 8601 input.
Fixed as a side-effect of fixing #127010 in fb475d22ba6d5507dd . Can be closed. Liz
