Re: Consistent timestamp input

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> This cannot be right can it? The code used to check EuroDates and now
> it doesn't. ISTM you must have broken either Euro or US format.

I'm not sure of the final consensus on what exactly the behavior should be.

> Also, I thought that the consensus on -general was that the heuristics
> involving looking at the range of the values were a bad idea. (While
> I disagree, I can recognize a lost cause when I see one.) You've still
> got them in there. ISTM the code ought to assume MM before DD if ISO
> or Euro style, otherwise (US style) assume DD before MM, and then reject
> if out of range, rather than allowing the range to determine which is
> which.

The ranges are only in there as an earlier catch of an invalid date - they
no longer are part of the earlier logic which allowed a "pass-through."
They should be removeable with no effect. I'll write up a new patch.
Does this logic seem correct?

if (US) {
YYYY-MM-DD
MM-DD-YYYY
}
else {
YYYY-MM-DD
DD-MM-YYYY
}

In other words, the US is backwards from the rest of the world.
(as far as MM-DD-YYYY)

Thanks,

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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