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curl_getdate.3: document that some illegal dates pass through

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@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ time_t curl_getdate(char *datestring, time_t *now);
1st 1970 00:00:00 in the UTC time zone, for the date and time that the
\fIdatestring\fP parameter specifies. The \fInow\fP parameter is not used,
pass a NULL there.
This function works with valid dates and does not always detect and reject
wrong dates, such as February 30.
.SH PARSING DATES AND TIMES
A "date" is a string containing several items separated by whitespace. The
order of the items is immaterial. A date string may contain many flavors of