So, what do people think we should allow as input in terms
of string parsing. I am thinking of (d=digit):
dddd - year
d/dddd or dd/dddd - month/year
dddd/dd/dd - year/month/day
dddd/dd/dd hh:mm:ss - year/month/day hour:minutes:seconds
Do you think this will suffice ?
d or dd - date of current month
d/d or dd/dd - both ambiguous for month/day or day/month of current
year
(USA = month/day, CA = day/month despite which many in CA use as
month/day)
Except for "d", which is probably agreed unambiguous hence easy to
implement, the issue is whether to wholly reject entries that lack a
4-character year. To accept anything less, a local preference would
have to be supported, yes? Maybe a date format per country (or is the
date format specified already in the OS?)
Note earlier discussion on this:
http://www.gnumed.org/documentation/develop/discussion/date.html
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