German Dates Like 07.10.2011

[prsebastian]

Hi,

it would be great if natty would parse german dates too.
A german date has the form dd.mm.yyyy or dd.mm.yy or sometimes d.mm.yy(yy)

Over 20 countries use this date format too, please refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

Thanks in advance,
Sebastian

[katyaa]

I have recently had to modify natty to parse german dates and I can tell you that natty cannot parse both. There is too much ambiguity. Even java method DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).parse(string) will fail to parse, depending on which Locale you're in. In US it fails to parse dot separated dates, in GERMANY it fails to parse slash separated dates.