[rt-users] Date Parsing Strangeness

[Stephen Turner]

At Wednesday 12/12/2007 01:39 PM, you wrote:
>Does 01/11/08 have a different result?  What about 2008-01-11?
>

A 4-digit year is handled correctly. Problems occur with a 1 or 
2-digit year , or no year at all.

Actually just found I found that with 1/11/08 (or 01/11/08) the date 
is set to 1/11/1908, which RT displays as 'not set' in the web 
interface. RT (and the time parsing module) by default assumes an 
'ambiguous' year is in the past - 08 is interpreted to be 1908.

You can change the setting to assume future dates, but that would 
convert '12/10' to '12/10/08' which might not be what you want. Also 
I found that using the 'prefer future' setting gives seriously odd 
results for some dates - '12/10/99' comes out as 1963-11-03 .