On 10/05/10 14:00, Eric Blake wrote: > Is that the correct historical name, or should this be worded: > > @code{parse_datetime} started life as @code{getdate}, as originally > implemented...
Perhaps that would be better. I don't know what its name was originally, though; somebody would have to check. > Should we also mention the non-thread-safe getdate() POSIX function, and > mention how the two differ? A brief mention of that would be OK, too. Wouldn't spend a lot of time on it.