Intelligent strptime?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <19991110171256.A5196 at optiplex.palga.uucp>,
Gerrit Holl  <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote:
>
>Does there exist an intelligent strptime? "26/11/99", for example, can _only_
>mean the 26th November of this year, and the chance that "14:11:12" means
>14 november 1912 is very small. Is there a module/function that guesses the
>format? There isn't doubt very often, only for 12/11/99, US is 11 december,
>Europe is 12 November (isn't it?).

I don't have my docs handy, but I think rfc822 and/or mxDateTime might
have what you want.
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> I wrote:
> > a slightly hairer design issue is what combinations
> > of pattern and string the new 're' will handle.
>