checking in- needs some refinement then done

netsplit/funcs_ianadate.go

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+package netsplit
+
+import (
+	`strings`
+	`time`
+)
+
+// MarshalText lets an IANADate conform to an encoding.TextMarshaler.
+func (i *IANADate) MarshalText() (text []byte, err error) {
+
+	if i == nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	if time.Time(*i).Day() == 0 {
+		text = []byte(time.Time(*i).Format(ianaMonthTfmt))
+	} else {
+		text = []byte(time.Time(*i).Format(ianaDateTfmt))
+	}
+
+	return
+}
+
+// UnmarshalText lets an IANADate conform to an encoding.TextUnmarshaler.
+func (i *IANADate) UnmarshalText(text []byte) (err error) {
+
+	var t time.Time
+
+	if text == nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	switch len(string(text)) {
+	case 7: // no day
+		if t, err = time.Parse(
+			ianaMonthTfmt,
+			strings.TrimSpace(string(text)),
+		); err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+	default: // TECHNICALLY should be 10 but we'll let the error here catch it otherwise.
+		if t, err = time.Parse(
+			ianaDateTfmt,
+			strings.TrimSpace(string(text)),
+		); err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	*i = IANADate(t)
+
+	return
+}