Date parsing

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Sep 3 19:46:11 UTC 2002


Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:
> bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

>> Unless you care about the day of the week, it can be ignored however
>> spelled.

> Yes, my parser does this.  In fact, every date parser for Usenet that
> I've seen does this and doesn't bother checking whether the day of the
> week was actually correct.

Oh, wait, no it doesn't.  I see what you're saying.  It does check to be
sure that it's a valid day of the week; it just doesn't check to ensure
that it corresponds to the date.

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