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Placing the year after time causes parsing to change the year #208

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michael-bryson opened this issue Jan 4, 2017 · 0 comments

michael-bryson commented Jan 4, 2017

I am seeing issue with some dates which have the time before the year. For example:

"Mon Feb 29 08:37:00 2016" is parsed as "Mon Mar 01 08:37:00 UTC 2010"
"Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970" is parsed as "Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2015"

As you can see the year gets changed and in the case of Feb 29 the year is changed to a non-leap year (2010) so the day moves to 1st March.

If I change the order and place the year before the time then the date is parsed correctly, for example:

"Mon Feb 29 2016 08:37:00"
"Thu Jan 1 1970 00:00:00"

However this pattern does not always cause the parsing to fail as a date such as "Fri Apr 22 10:54:33 2016" is parsed correctly.

This is a required date format for us as we use this to parse dates coming from emails which are returned in this format.

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