Second second

In GNU’s parse-datetime.y, or as it used to be called, getdate.y, the second ordinal is commented out. I guess for English ambiguity reasons.

  { "THIS",     tORDINAL,        0 },
  { "NEXT",     tORDINAL,        1 },
  { "FIRST",    tORDINAL,        1 },
/*{ "SECOND",   tORDINAL,        2 }, */
  { "THIRD",    tORDINAL,        3 },
  { "FOURTH",   tORDINAL,        4 },
  { "FIFTH",    tORDINAL,        5 },

This leads to weird things.

ellen% date --date "first day"
date --date "first day"
Sat 04 Jun 2022 10:29:20 AM CEST
ellen% date --date "second day"
date --date "second day"
Sat 04 Jun 2022 10:29:33 AM CEST
ellen% date --date "third day"
date --date "third day"
Mon 06 Jun 2022 10:29:40 AM CEST
ellen% date --date "fourth day"
date --date "fourth day"
Tue 07 Jun 2022 10:29:48 AM CEST

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