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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