9.330 getdate

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getdate.html

Gnulib module: —

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.

Gnulib provides a module parse-datetime that contains a function parse_datetime that has similar functionality as the getdate function.