Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

Linus Torvalds wrote:

	Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:20:10 0200 -> bad
	Date: Mon, 18 Apr 05 15:05:29 Hora oficial do Brasil -> bad
	Date: 2002/04/11 18:29:07 -> bad

The second one is funny. Not just the "Hora oficial do Brasil" (hey, I 
could add it as a real timezone and my parser would do the right thing ;) 
but also because my parser decides that "05" is not a year, but the day in 
the month, so it doesn't see the year.

I can fake out that year thing pretty easily ("if it starts with '0' it's 
not a day of the month"), but it does show just how _strange_ stuff 
there's out there.

And what happens then with the first example?  2008 Apr 2005?


I thought about missing timezones once more.  Don't you think it's
better to default to -0000?  Afaics, it was defined for just these
cases.  Simply appending an arbitrary timezone seems wrong.

Ciao, ET.