From abacbd802482534aebdf58716ce370a6ca3b063c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Raddon <aaron@lytics.io>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:20:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add another weird date format:  08/21/71

---
 parseany.go      | 18 ++++++++----------
 parseany_test.go |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/parseany.go b/parseany.go
index 5369023..a654bcb 100644
--- a/parseany.go
+++ b/parseany.go
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ const (
 
 var _ = u.EMPTY
 
+var (
+	shortDates = []string{"01/02/2006", "1/2/2006", "06/01/02", "01/02/06"}
+)
+
 // Given an unknown date format, detect the type, parse, return time
 func ParseAny(datestr string) (time.Time, error) {
 
@@ -391,19 +395,13 @@ iterRunes:
 				}
 			}
 		} else {
-			if len(datestr) == len("01/02/2006") {
-				if t, err := time.Parse("01/02/2006", datestr); err == nil {
+			for _, parseFormat := range shortDates {
+				if t, err := time.Parse(parseFormat, datestr); err == nil {
 					return t, nil
-				} else {
-					return time.Time{}, err
-				}
-			} else {
-				if t, err := time.Parse("1/2/2006", datestr); err == nil {
-					return t, nil
-				} else {
-					return time.Time{}, err
 				}
 			}
+
+			return time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf("Unrecognized dateformat: %v", datestr)
 		}
 
 	case ST_DIGITSLASHWSCOLON: // starts digit then slash 02/ more digits/slashes then whitespace
diff --git a/parseany_test.go b/parseany_test.go
index 1fa0c00..5b8cb0f 100644
--- a/parseany_test.go
+++ b/parseany_test.go
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ func TestParse(t *testing.T) {
 	//u.Debug(ts.In(time.UTC).Unix(), ts.In(time.UTC))
 	assert.T(t, "2014-03-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC" == fmt.Sprintf("%v", ts.In(time.UTC)))
 
+	// what type of date is this? 08/21/71
+	ts, err = ParseAny("08/21/71")
+	assert.Tf(t, err == nil, "%v", err)
+	//u.Debug(ts.In(time.UTC).Unix(), ts.In(time.UTC))
+	assert.T(t, "1971-08-21 00:00:00 +0000 UTC" == fmt.Sprintf("%v", ts.In(time.UTC)))
+
 	ts, err = ParseAny("4/8/2014 22:05")
 	assert.Tf(t, err == nil, "%v", err)
 	//u.Debug(ts.In(time.UTC).Unix(), ts.In(time.UTC))