bug#21229: 24.5; parse-time-string ignore PM/AM

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:45:36 +0900 (JST)
> From: Tino Calancha <f92capac@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tino Calancha <f92capac@gmail.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
>       21229@debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
> 
> At some point one decision (order to support) should be taken 
> because MM DD need to be identified:
> 07-11, november 7th?
> Maybe July 11th?

Why not go with the locale's conventions?

> date +%D (%m/%d/%y)

IMO, this is not reasonable for locales which use %d/%m/%y (all of
Europe, AFAIK, and then some).