GNU bug report logs - #21229
24.5; parse-time-string ignore PM/AM

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <f92capac <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:35:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.5

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 21229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <f92capac <at> gmail.com>
Cc: f92capac <at> gmail.com, schwab <at> suse.de, 21229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org
Subject: Re: bug#21229: 24.5; parse-time-string ignore PM/AM
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:39:13 +0300

> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:36 +0900 (JST)
> From: Tino Calancha <f92capac <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Tino Calancha <f92capac <at> gmail.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>,
> 	21229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
> 
> 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).
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