[TriLUG] Perplexed

Matt Frye mattfrye at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 21:54:34 EDT 2006


On 4/4/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having been through this, I have to say that I'm not that happy with
> the gnu date format which is used by strtotime and the --date
> parameter to the date command.  It just feels a little loosey goosey
> in the specification to me.

> It's also interesting to contemplate how long it would have taken to
> realise the DST bug in the test harness code if I hadn't happened to
> have been doing this THIS week, or what other similar bugs might be
> hiding here.

Interesting perspective.  Thanks for your insight Rick.

MPF



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