Subject: bug#21229: 24.5; parse-time-string ignore PM/AM

From: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:46:51 +0900 (JST)

As far as is clearly explained in the documentation string
of parse-time-string  i am fine with that.

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:36 +0900 (JST)
>> From: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>,
>> 	[email-masked], Nicolas Richard <[email-masked]>
>>
>> At some point one decision (order to support) should be taken
>> because MM DD need to be identified:
>> 07-11, november 7th?
>> Maybe July 11th?
>
> Why not go with the locale's conventions?
>
>> date +%D (%m/%d/%y)
>
> IMO, this is not reasonable for locales which use %d/%m/%y (all of
> Europe, AFAIK, and then some).
>