tar: Authors of parse_datetime

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1 7.11 Authors of 'parse_datetime'
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1 'parse_datetime' started life as 'getdate', as originally implemented by
1 Steven M. Bellovin (<smb@research.att.com>) while at the University of
1 North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The code was later tweaked by a couple
1 of people on Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz
1 (<rsalz@bbn.com>) and Jim Berets (<jberets@bbn.com>) in August, 1990.
1 Various revisions for the GNU system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim
1 Meyering, Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to 'get_date' to
1 avoid a conflict with the alternative Posix function 'getdate', and a
1 later rename to 'parse_datetime'.  The Posix function 'getdate' can
1 parse more locale-specific dates using 'strptime', but relies on an
1 environment variable and external file, and lacks the thread-safety of
1 'parse_datetime'.
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1    This chapter was originally produced by Franc,ois Pinard
1 (<pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>) from the 'parse_datetime.y' source code, and
1 then edited by K. Berry (<kb@cs.umb.edu>).
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