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