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From: Noorul Islam K M <gnukid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Date Prompt Bug (or Anomoly)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:17:09 +0530
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To: "Daniel E. Doherty" <ded-law@ddoherty.net>
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Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:

> All,
>
> In playing around with the date prompt (C-.), I ran across the following
> puzzling behavior from rather simple inputs.
>
> I entered the following on June 1, 2010.  Here is a date entered as
> "3/15": <2011-03-15 Tue>.  It interpreted it as the upcoming March 15 as
> expected.
>
> But here is a date entered as "5/21": <2021-06-05 Sat>.  Note how it
> interpreted the "21" as the year 2021, not at all what I expected from
> the documentation or the analogous "3/15" example.

I think you should be using 3-15 & 5-21. I think the program is not
expecting '/' instead it expects '-'.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul