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[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> mal wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just curious: have you taken a look at the mxDateTime parser ?
> 
> 
> is that an extension of the rfc822.parsedate approach?

Yes, but it goes far beyond RFC822 style dates and times.

>>It has a slightly different approach than strptime() but also
>>takes a lot of load from the programmer in terms of not requiring
>>a predefined format.
> 
> 
> if you're asking me, strptime is mostly useless in 99% of all practical
> cases (even more useless than scanf).  but luckily, it's mostly harm-
> less as well...

Agreed.

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