#13 date strings with time zone offset are not coerced reliably

[Andre Radke]

Originally reported by Dave Winer for the Windows version:

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Try this in the Quick Script window:

date ("Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:45:23 -0800")

You get a boolean value of true.

If you drop off the -0800 you get the correct time in
the local time zone.

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On Mac OS X, the coercion actually works but ignores
the time zone offset.

I don't know if the coercion should work or not, but
returning true (on Windows) is definitely a bug. It
should either return a date or throw a script error
indicating that the value couldn't be coerced to a date.

Reference:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frontierkernel/message/498

[Andre Radke]

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