[uf-discuss] human readable date parsing

Michael MD mdagn at spraci.com
Fri May 4 02:04:31 PDT 2007


> I agree that i18n is a stumbling block here. But, descriptions, titles
> and names aren't translated as well, why would the date need be? Let's
> put the smarts into the parsers and figure out which date we mean, and
> have the user confirm it.

The place for such user confirmation is in authoring software not parsing 
software!

eg how would something aggregating hcalendar data from multiple sources be 
able to ask for confirmation?

It would just have to reject anything ambiguous.




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