[GNC] Bad date not caught

[Dean Gibson]

Actually,, ISO8601 describes the valid (& preferred) date 
representations.  Anything with dashes is presumed to be YYYY-MM-DD.  Of 
course, just because this is an international standard, doesn't mean 
that everyone (including governments) follows it.  This includes the US 
FAA. which presumes MM-DD-YY.

So much for standards! I guess ISO8601 is pretty new (35 years ago) for 
some organizations!

On 2023-10-12 16:27, john wrote:
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> Another more involved fix would be to make the date parser a bit more liberal about delimiters and formats; the only slightly minor difficulty is ordering ambiguous sequences: for example 21-10-23 could be 21 October 2023 or 23 October 2021 and 5/7/9 could be the 9 July 2005, 7 May 2009, or 5 July 2009.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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