Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

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> But when you are dealing with hand-entered input, you *do not know* what
> the user meant by input such as '01/03/2003'.  You may think you know,
> but you're just fooling yourself.

I agree with this, but the actual test case someone posted was:

2003-13-03
2003-03-13

Parsing these both as the same date just seems fundamentally wrong in my
opinion. Besides, although MM-DD-YYYY and DD-MM-YYYY are both rather
common, YYYY-MM-DD is much more common than YYYY-DD-MM. I really think
it should throw an error if it does not fit into YYYY-MM-DD.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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