Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: improved version of "getdate"?
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.205208.15796@eci386.uucp>
Keywords: getdate.y
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <1272@hico2.UUCP> <1991Mar18.141630.9094@uwasa.fi>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 20:52:08 GMT

In article <1991Mar18.141630.9094@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> In article <1272@hico2.UUCP> kak@hico2.westmark.com writes:
> >I recently saw a mention of an improved version of the "getdate"
> >routine.  (The article disappeared in a semi-daily emergency
> 
> If you first elaborate what the improved getdate routine is expected
> to do, there would be a better change of trying to find a useful
> answer. 

I think 'kak' did -- the version available wouldn't eat date(1) output.

The version of getdate that is shipped with C News works fine.  It
even is available as a shell callable programme.

In addition I have a version of date(1) that is almost POSIX
1003.2-draft compatible.  However, my version will take getdate output
(rather than the current system date) via the command line and convert
it back to the given ASCII representation.  I think I remember posting
this to alt.sources.  It's not ready for comp.sources yet though,
since it's not a complete POSIX implementation.
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