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-.TH curl_getdate 3 "5 March 2001" "libcurl 7.0" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_getdate 3 "12 Aug 2005" "libcurl 7.0" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_getdate - Convert an date string to number of seconds since January 1,
1970
items:
.TP 0.8i
.B calendar date items
-Can be specified several ways. Month names can only be three-letter
+Can be specified several ways. Month names can only be three-letter english
abbrivations, numbers can be zero-prefixed and the year may use 2 or 4 digits.
Examples: 06 Nov 1994, 06-Nov-94 and Nov-94 6.
.TP
.SH REWRITE
The former version of this function was built with yacc and was not only very
large, it was also never quite understood and it wasn't possible to build with
-non-GNU tools since only Bison could make it thread-safe!
+non-GNU tools since only GNU Bison could make it thread-safe!
The rewrite was done for 7.12.2. The new one is much smaller and use simpler
code.