On Dec 26, 2007, at 20:15 , Bjorn Buckwalter wrote:
Hello all,
Is there a compelling reason to not make the formats in Data.Time.Format case-insensitive when parsing? This would apply to the months, weekdays, time zone. (I see there are already two formats %p and %P corresponding (confusingly) to AM/PM and am/pm respectively.)
What got me thinking about this is that I'm being supplied with dates on the format "26 DEC" which will not parse without munging. I suspect such situations are fairly common?
I agree. The parser should be more liberal. I originally implemented rather faithful inverses of the formatting directives, but I don't really see any point in being very strict when parsing. You are welcome to submit a patch for this, or at least a feature request in Trac to keep it from being forgotten.
Also, is there a way to have the parser assume a century of 20 with the format %y?
No. Do you have any ideas for how this could be implemented? You can always add 100 to the year after parsing :-) /Björn