Re: BUG #1671: Long interval string representation rejected

Neil Conway wrote:
> I think we _can_ do it that way, it's just a question of whether that is
> the best approach. I think the solution I outlined before would work
> fine: pass the length of the working buffer to ParseDateTime(), and
> reject the input only if the parsing process actually requires more
> working space than was provided. [...]

> Or we could rewrite how we do parsing, which seems to be what you're
> suggesting.

Any thoughts on this, Tom? If you're planning on doing the rewrite you
described, that's fine; alternatively I'm happy to implement the fix
that I described above.

-Neil