Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 22:42:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Bradley White <bww+@CS.CMU.EDU>

* Prior Art

Perhaps a reasonable candidate already exists, or can be grown from existing code. These routines (in alphabetical order) have been mentioned:

func who where ----------------------------------------------------- dparsetime() RAND/UCI MH getabsdate() Moraes C News getdate() USL Sys V Rel 4 getdate() Bellovin/Salz/Berets B News parsedate() Hamey/Accetta Mach partime() Harrenstien/Eggert RCS strptime() Harris SunOS 4.1[.x]

Where are these various routines available? Are there any routines available that take a "format" parameter so that they can scan dates that are in ambiguous formats. I would like to be able to scan dates in any of the following formats: M-D-Y T D-M-Y T Y-M-D T M/D/Y T D/M/Y T Y/M/D T M D Y T D M Y T Y M D T M.D.Y T D.M.Y T Y.M.D T Where: M is the month expressed as 3, Mar, MAR, or March Y is the year expressed as 92 or 1992 T is optional and is the time (12- or 24-hour format) Thanks. Monty --- # Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA 01701-0405 # monty%roscom@think.com