Re: bin/50574 (lib/libutil/t_parsedate:relative test fails at times)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/50574; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
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Subject: Re: bin/50574 (lib/libutil/t_parsedate:relative test fails at times)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 10:48:56 -0500

 On Jan 2, 11:20am, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/50574 (lib/libutil/t_parsedate:relative test fails at tim
 
 |  I'd argue that all of this should be removed. It is "parsedate" and not
 |  "Siri", "Eliza", or the wolfram alpha interface. IMHO "tomorrow" is not
 |  a date, but "Jan 3, 2016" is - even if both would mean the same to a
 |  human reader today.
 |  
 |  If we fear for backward compat, at least document them as deprecated
 |  and disable all tests for them.
 
 These are used all the time. Haven't you ran cvs -D '-1 week', or
 cvs -D yesterday?
 
 christos