bug#14776: 24.3.50; [PATCH] parse-time-string performance

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de> writes:

> Also, people may be keeping ancient mail around, containing dates which
> may be parsed by the current function.

Yes, but perhaps your regexp-based parser could be extended to parse
those, too?  Ancient date formats looked quite RFC2822-ey, too.

> Anyway here is an updated version, incorporating 2-digit years and
> textual timezones.

Looks good.

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