On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 04:16:47PM -0300, Carlos Santos wrote:
> I noticed that it comes due to sys-utils/hwclock-parse-date.y, which
> was taken from gnulib. Would it be possible to take the file from an
> previous version of gnulib that was still under GPLv2?
I have checked it again and all history of the file in git is with v3,
and import old version also means import many bugs....
Maybe the best would be to use our lib/timeutils.c:parse_timestamp().
It does not provide support for so many date-time formats, but the
basic format like "2012-09-22 16:34:22" (and subsets) is supported.
IMHO it's better to introduce a small backward compatibility issue than
rely on hwclock-parse-date.y or execute date(1) like old versions.
I didn't expect v3 to be a problem for so many our users.... ;-(
Karel
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