Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:18:20 +0300
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:49:34 +0200
> 
> I'd like to implement the POSIX getdate() function (parses a
> given string using a set of possible format specs and returns
> a struct tm* with the corresponding date/time), mainly because
> it looks like a challenge.
> 
> Of course, there is also the not-so-POSIX DOS getdate() function.
> What is the recommended way of dealing with this?

We had a similar situtaion with `gettext'.  Juan Manuel Guerrero
posted here a patch that was meant to resolve that (look for a message
whose subject is "Patch for solving GNU/BORLAND gettext issue");
perhaps you could use the same solution for this problem.