What about this:
1.) Use REGEX to parse year into a separate String -> will be empty or nnnn
2.) If year is empty, substitute current year (as seen on client) and parse the
date
2.1 If a parse error occurs, OR result date is > 3 days in the future, try
again with previous year
(in order to account for Jan.1 on the host where client still has Dec.31)
(allow 3 days in future to be safe in really odd timezone conditions)
My Linux box (RHEL4) currently shows
"Sep 27 17:28" for Sep 27, 2007
"Sep 3 2007" for Sep 3, 2007
"Mar 15 2008" for Mar 15, 2008
So apparently it uses short dates only for 6 months back.
And doesn't use short dates for future dates even if it's
Just 2 days in the future.
I think that the FTP solution should work properly for the most
Prevalent system and live with the fact that we don't know if
There are any obscure OS's there which keep using short dates
Even 10 months or more after the date. It's just undefined.
Correct solution will come by using new FTP MDTM / MLST commands.
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 12. März 2008 21:37
> To: Commons Developers List
> Subject: [NET] 1.5 Leap year processing
>
> I think I've found a solution to the leap year processing.
>
> At present the code tries the short date and then adds the current
> year if the parse fails.
> This does not work on Java 1.4 or earlier because Feb 29 1970 does not
> cause a parse failure - the date is converted to Mar 1 1970.
>
> One solution seems to be to add the current year to the short date
> initially, so Feb 29 will either parse OK or cause a failure if it's
> not a leap year; the date won't be changed to Mar 1.
>
> However, I've just realised that it won't work if the current date is
> in Jan or Feb the following year, i.e. 10+ months later.
>
> Are there any OSes which display short dates more than 10 months after
> the file date?
>
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