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Subject: default format of `date` command should be permitted
Using the default output of the unix `date` command has been a convention since forever. The spec should respect this. And as changefiles are first-most meant to be read by humans, some would argue that format is more easily parsed by a human. Especially since most date parsing modules can also parse this format. Since the aim of the project is to parse all the changefiles, why not compile statistics on the various datetime formats used?
After re-consideration and consultation with other developers, I've decided to update the parsing code to allow these types of dates to be processed. NB: This only affects the parsing code. They are converted to W3CDTF format internally and will be outputted as such. CPAN::Changes 0.09 should be hitting a mirror near you shortly.