Date fails on dd/mm/yyyy

[Keith]

On 1/28/24 6:16 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
> (Apologies for top posting; my phone mail app has no proper editor.)
> 
> It would be simple, non-invasive, and backwards compatible to introduce 
> a new option that would specify that the argument of -d was dd/mm/yyyy.
> 
> Without it, -d would continue to interpret the argument as mm/dd/yyyy so 
> nothing breaks.
> 

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13058

The earliest copyright for date.c in the coreutils package is dated to 
1989. The above bug report, GNU bug report logs - #13058
European date format, was submitted in 2012. After 6 years with no 
further comments or, more importantly, patches, it was closed in 2018.

If a modification was going to happen, it would've happened by now.

-- 
Keith