Ray Saintonge wrote: It seems a little bats that at a time when our databse is struggling, we're adding more load to the system for something so trivial. Can't Americans read dates when they're the other way round?

Hi, folks! Erik Moeller wrote: Actually, I looked at the code to make some changes to my private language file and didn't understand it. I know somehow what the code does but not how, because I didn't want to spend that much time decoding all those regexps that make the code pretty cryptic and hard to maintain - with the added bonus of not having /any/ documentation. Why not rearrange the code into two segments: Segment one would parse the linked date like present in the article into three numerical values: day, month, year. The second segment then would only have to concat those values (maybe with a converted month name) into the final form. This form could be given in the usual "$1 $2 $3 $4" syntax (with e.g. $4 being the month name). That also would take some load off the server that now has to interpret lots of regexp patterns, which isn't too cheap because these patterns normally first get converted into some form of a finite automaton that is eventually given the input string for processing. (At least the code by Tatu Ylonen proceeds in this way.) Bye! Matthias