grid-based date editor - Githubissues

While it's current possible to edit dates from the grid perspective, you have 
to enter a date in the specific format of the Python datetime object, which is 
unnecessary because:

(1) it's a very unnatural format to type
(2) we don't even use the time portions of the format

The operator should be able to enter a date in any of a set of "standard 
formats" (mm/dd/yyyy, mm/dd/yy, mmm dd, yyyy, etc...) and the tool should be 
able to convert that into a datestamp and push it into the database.

This will involve:

(1) a regex to parse the input string and determine if it matches an understood 
format.
(2) use of a Python function to convert from string to datestamp. This is 
already used in the FINally code (datetime.strptime(...)). The string format 
for this function will be determined by the particulars of the regex match. For 
example, if the regex matches yy-mm-dd then the input to the strptime function 
will need to match (%Y-%m-%d).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Daniel.S...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2010 at 1:21

TheGU / fin-ally

grid-based date editor #28