From 809464b39048da6beb7fa2c216ca8667f6799f67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 19:15:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (date): Interpret the date, L/M/N, as YYYY/MM/DD if L >=
 1000, otherwise as MM/DD/YY.  With this change, date --date=DATE accepts
 dates like those in an RCS log listing.

---
 lib/getdate.y | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/getdate.y b/lib/getdate.y
index 6988604dd8..8e35c9203d 100644
--- a/lib/getdate.y
+++ b/lib/getdate.y
@@ -312,9 +312,22 @@ date	: tUNUMBER '/' tUNUMBER {
 	    yyDay = $3;
 	}
 	| tUNUMBER '/' tUNUMBER '/' tUNUMBER {
-	    yyMonth = $1;
-	    yyDay = $3;
-	    yyYear = $5;
+	  /* Interpret as YYYY/MM/DD if $1 >= 1000, otherwise as MM/DD/YY.
+	     The goal in recognizing YYYY/MM/DD is solely to support legacy
+	     machine-generated dates like those in an RCS log listing.  If
+	     you want portability, use the ISO 8601 format.  */
+	  if ($1 >= 1000)
+	    {
+	      yyYear = $1;
+	      yyMonth = $3;
+	      yyDay = $5;
+	    }
+	  else
+	    {
+	      yyMonth = $1;
+	      yyDay = $3;
+	      yyYear = $5;
+	    }
 	}
 	| tUNUMBER tSNUMBER tSNUMBER {
 	    /* ISO 8601 format.  yyyy-mm-dd.  */
-- 
2.30.2