bug#52209: 28.0.60; [PATCH] date-to-time fails on pure dates

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs@rgrjr.homedns.org> writes:

>    On the other hand, this might be overkill for callers of parse-date,
> who, being deep in their own logic, might only care that some date they
> have to deal with is invalid.  Which is why I wanted an opinion from
> someone with the big picture -- I admit I am biased (and a bit annoyed)
> from too often having to study the code to figure out why some perfectly
> reasonable date I supply is being misinterpreted.

Better errors messages are possible without making many specific error
symbols, though.

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