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 28.11 Authors of 'parse_datetime'
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 'parse_datetime' started life as 'getdate', as originally implemented by
 Steven M. Bellovin (<smb@research.att.com>) while at the University of
 North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The code was later tweaked by a couple
 of people on Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz
 (<rsalz@bbn.com>) and Jim Berets (<jberets@bbn.com>) in August, 1990.
 Various revisions for the GNU system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim
 Meyering, Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to 'get_date' to
 avoid a conflict with the alternative Posix function 'getdate', and a
 later rename to 'parse_datetime'.  The Posix function 'getdate' can
 parse more locale-specific dates using 'strptime', but relies on an
 environment variable and external file, and lacks the thread-safety of
 'parse_datetime'.
 
    This chapter was originally produced by Franc,ois Pinard
 (<pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>) from the 'parse_datetime.y' source code, and
 then edited by K. Berry (<kb@cs.umb.edu>).
 

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