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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-08-09 13:47:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-08-09 13:57:07 -0700 |
| commit | f1f10d47be8762e4ca17c8957a0520b08d28abfb (patch) | |
| tree | b21c755d541d068be42d98debaa4958b4744924e /doc/parse-datetime.texi | |
| parent | b5e7a0deb7f9a3fc7f0206e39f6b032b1051d0cd (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-f1f10d47be8762e4ca17c8957a0520b08d28abfb.tar.gz | |
parse-datetime: fix military timezone letters
Problem and trivial fix reported by Neil Hoggarth in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2019-08/msg00005.html
* lib/parse-datetime.y (military_table):
Do it the right way, not the RFC 822 way.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/parse-datetime.texi b/doc/parse-datetime.texi index 193575edca..2f11475728 100644 --- a/doc/parse-datetime.texi +++ b/doc/parse-datetime.texi @@ -306,7 +306,9 @@ only for @samp{UTC}; for example, @samp{UTC+05:30} is equivalent to Time zone items other than @samp{UTC} and @samp{Z} are obsolescent and are not recommended, because they are ambiguous; for example, @samp{EST} has a different meaning in -Australia than in the United States. Instead, it's better to use +Australia than in the United States, and @samp{A} has different +meaning as a military time zone than as an obsolescent +RFC 822 time zone. Instead, it's better to use unambiguous numeric time zone corrections like @samp{-0500}, as described in the previous section. |