Gnu/coreutils/Authors-of-parse 005fdatetime
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29.11 Authors of parse_datetime
parse_datetime started life as getdate, as originally
implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
([email protected]) while at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on
Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz ([email protected])
and Jim Berets ([email protected]) in August, 1990. Various
revisions for the GNU system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering,
Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to get_date to
avoid a conflict with the alternative Posix function getdate,
and a later rename to parse_datetime. The Posix function
getdate can parse more locale-specific dates using
strptime, but relies on an environment variable and external
file, and lacks the thread-safety of parse_datetime.
This chapter was originally produced by François Pinard
([email protected]) from the parse_datetime.y source code,
and then edited by K. Berry ([email protected]).
