# Stricter date parsing

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stricter-date-parsing/12334
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, dates, parsing
**Created:** [July 12, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stricter-date-parsing/12334 "2018-07-12T14:40:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stricter-date-parsing/12334/21 "2018-07-14T08:09:44Z")

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I appreciate all suggestions for _implementation_, but I would prefer to focus this topic on the _behavior_ of date parsing in the standard library.

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### Author: ![Liso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@Liso](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Liso)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stricter-date-parsing/12334/22 "2018-07-14T09:32:03Z")

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> [@Tamas\_Papp](#):
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> I would prefer to focus this topic on the _behavior_ of date parsing in the standard library.

From my humble point of view it is probable not bug (because it is intended) but big issue (because it is unusual and non-intuitive). Changing doc is not the way to improve situation.

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