From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T15:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: convert string format


On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Brian Adkins wrote:

>
> Good point, but with a format like "20070801", there's a good chance
> this is not user input, but serialized data that's already been  
> parsed/
> validated and just needs to be formatted.

could be.  still, c programs are notorious for using crappy methods  
of string/date generation and dumping out bad dates - we had one  
system that crashed for years every newyear's eve for years until i  
got around to hacking a wrapper on it... give you one guess why ;-)

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