bug#311: marked as done (parse-time-string fails on non-abbre month str)

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and subject line parse-time-string fails on non-abbre month str
has caused the Emacs bug report #311,
regarding parse-time-string fails on non-abbre month str
to be marked as done.

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> Fri, 23 May 2008 15:32:45 -0700
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> This fails in getting the month string.
> (parse-time-string "August 5, 2002.")
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> Kevin Rodgers also reported in gnu.emacs.help yesterday that it fails  
> in getting full weekday names, and he provide a fix for that. (his  
> message and code pasted below my sig)
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>   Xah
>   xah@xahlee.org
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
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> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 22:17:49 -0600
> Local: Thurs, May 22 2008 9:17 pm
> Subject: Re: parsing time stamp
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> Johan Bockgård wrote:
> > Xah <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> is there a function that parses a timestamp like “Monday, Nov. 28,
> >> 1994” so that i can write a function to turn it into the format  
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> >> mm-dd?
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> (parse-time-string "Monday, Nov. 28, 1994")
> => (nil nil nil 28 11 1994 nil nil nil)
> Odd that the leading "Monday, " yields nil DOW...  It turns out that is
> due to the fact that the parse-time-weekdays variable only has
> abbreviations (e.g. "mon"), just like parse-time-months.  Easy to fix:
> (let ((parse-time-weekdays (append parse-time-weekdays
>                                    '(("sunday" . 0)
>                                      ("monday" . 1)
>                                      ("tuesday" . 2)
>                                      ("wednesday" . 3)
>                                      ("thursday" . 4)
>                                      ("friday" . 5)
>                                      ("saturday" . 6)))))
>    (parse-time-string "Monday, Nov. 28, 1994"))
> => (nil nil nil 28 11 1994 1 nil nil)
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> Kevin Rodgers
> Denver, Colorado, USA
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> Mon, 26 May 2008 23:47:31 -0400
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> > This fails in getting the month string.
> > (parse-time-string "August 5, 2002.")
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> I've fixed this in CVS.  Thanks.
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