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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: date(1) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 1997 12:33:59 +0930."
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> This is what I proposed back at the beginning of the thread : something
> like :
> 
> date -f %H:%M:%S 12:31:00
> date -f %c%y,%m,%d 1997,Aug,1
> 
> etc, with some standard builtin templates for trying, eg :
> 
> date -a "Fri  1 Aug 12:33:15 CST 1997"
> 
> is the standard ctime format, one that's worth parsing.

So who's lurking with the strptime() code ?

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