Bug#729952: /bin/date: date parsing inconsistencies

[Michael Stone]

The date parsing feature exists in Debian only for compatibility with 
upstream. It is a complete misfeature, and I would prefer that it didn't 
exist at all. In an ideal world the entire idea of trying to utilize a
natural language parser would be scrapped in favor of a simple and 
regular grammar. Unfortunately, it is what it is. The only way to use 
the feature is to experiment until you find something that does what you 
want. The corollary to that is that nothing can be changed, because 
doing so would break existing scripts that were tweaked to perform 
correctly using the current implementation.

Mike Stone

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