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Re: date parsing of european dates


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: date parsing of european dates
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:18:57 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:

> GNU date does not allow the date parsing pattern to be specified on
> the command line.

Yes.

> Neither does it allow use of the DATEMSK env var to hack the behaviour
> of the internal call to the C library's getdate().

Yes.

> Neither does it change the parsing of dates based on the environment
> locale variables, eg: LC_TIME

Yes.

> Thus:
>
>    $  LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 date --date "12/05/2005"
>    Mon Dec  5 00:00:00 GMT 2005
>
> but what it should really output is:
>
>   Thu May 5 00:00:00 BST 2005
>
>
> Are my assertions incorrect or is it indeed impossible to parse this
> date with the semantics that I want?

I'm afraid you'll have to reformulate the date yourself, before you
give it to GNU date.  E.g., "date --date 2005-05-12".




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