Re: Teach "approxidate" about weekday syntax

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:

On 11/18/05, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

Seriously, I can't imagine what else we'd want.

An error when there's a chance the result is unexpected?

That'd be even harder to define -- I'd rather have it spit out what it
interpreted so that porcelains can display it to the user. The user
can tell at a glance if the parser is off -- for it will be off by a
mile.

Yes, it may be off by a mile. But if there exists a feature to specify a 
date that comfortably, people don't RTFM, but use it.

Now comes the rub: if nothing is displayed, they take it that everything 
was fine. *If* something was displayed, one knew that the code parsed 
yesterday when last year was meant. But *if not*, nobody knows.

This is dangerous. It is wrong, but does not say so.

Hth,
Dscho