@cindex MacKenzie, David
@cindex Meyering, Jim
@cindex Eggert, Paul
-@code{get_date} was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
+@code{parse_datetime} was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
(@email{smb@@research.att.com}) while at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on
Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz (@email{rsalz@@bbn.com})
and Jim Berets (@email{jberets@@bbn.com}) in August, 1990. Various
revisions for the @sc{gnu} system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering,
-Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{parse_datetime}
+Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{get_date} and
+then to @code{parse_datetime}
to avoid confusion with the Posix function @code{getdate}.
@cindex Pinard, F.