Re: String to time

Is there any reason that the latest parsedate.y from INN wasn't used? I would prefer that one because it has a clear statement that it has been released into the public domain, and it presumably has improvements not in this older version. Jim Nick Sayer wrote: > > I have just finished another loadable function. This one is an > interface to a routine I swiped out of C-news a long time ago. > It's a YACC thing called 'getdate'. You give it a free form date > string and it turns it into a time_t. It also accepts offset style > date input, such as "now + 1 minute". It takes as input a time value > to be used as the base for such relative time strings. > > My strtotime() function takes either 1 or 2 arguments. The first is > the string, the second is an optional timeval (the default is the > current time if this argument is left out). It returns a timeval, > or -1 if the input specifies an illegal time (years must be 1970-2099, > the way I compiled it. As it was in C-news, years beyond 2000 didn't work, > but the fix was simple). > > I can provide it to anyone who is interested. I didn't find a similar > function in the manual (at least one whose input was as free-form). If > it exists, then tell me and watch me turn beet red. :-)