Victor Engmark venit, vidit, dixit 10.05.2011 09:40: > On 05/10/2011 08:54 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> On 05/10/2011 08:35 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: >>> Brian Gernhardt venit, vidit, dixit 09.05.2011 21:02: >>>> (This is in response to a discussion on #parrot.) >>>> >>>> Rakudo (https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/) uses tags of the form >>>> YYYY.MM for their monthly releases. When we were attempting to find >>>> the cause of a slowdown, somewhat was trying to find what commits >>>> occurred after the 2011.01 release with "git log --after=2011.01". >>>> His mistake was pointed out but this led to the confusion of why this >>>> was parsed as "May 1 2011" instead of "Jan 1 2011". Shouldn't >>>> date.c:match_multi_number() parse something with only two numbers as >>>> a beginning of month instead of allowing it to pass through to the >>>> generic parsing? >>> >>> I just don't think there is a format like that. There is dd.mm.[yy]yy >>> and apparently also yyyy.mm.dd, but without leading zeros in mm for the >>> latter. Our date parser also takes "." for a space so that you don't >>> need to quote a space ("1.day.ago"). I can see the logic behind parsing >>> 2011.01 as January 2011, but it's a stretch from the existing formats: >>> >> >> It would be far more logical to parse "2011-01" as "January 2011" as >> that's the preferred way to write month-precision dates in most >> countries that use both the metric system and the gregorian calender. >> >> I've never seen that date-type with dot as a separator, but with the >> dash it's very, very common. > > Seconded. ISO dates are getting pretty common, and in the extended > format hyphens are the default separator between year, month, and date > <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ISO_8601#Calendar_dates>. Please, guys, this is not about ISO dates. It's about abbreviations of yyyy.mm.dd, and that is not ISO at all! Incidentally, we do not parse 2010-3 as March of 2010 either. Again, this is not ISO date format (but an unofficial abbreviation). We may decide to dwim that to 2010-03-01, and I would even appreciate that. But yyyy.mm.dd is a format we don't support at all (because it's no standard), so before supporting an abbreviation we would have to decide about supporting that format. > A few notes on support: [notes about ISO dates cut] Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html