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author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:37:16 -0700
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@node getdate
@section @code{getdate}
@findex getdate

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getdate.html}

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
@end itemize

Gnulib provides a module @code{parse-datetime} that contains a function
@code{parse_datetime}
that has similar functionality as the @code{getdate} function.