Please add Date module to d.o.

I'm working on a new content type/Views displays for Drupal-related books. Books have a publication date which would ideally be a Date-module-based field. For the time-being, since our book listings need to be sorted by date (descending, i.e. reverse chronological, in the "available" book listing views displays and ascending in the "upcoming" category), I was just going to use a text field with a format like YYYY-MM-DD, which should at least be sortable. But ideally we want to output the date in a "nicer" format (e.g. "March 27, 2012") and be able to take advantage of the field validation that the Date module provides, among other advantages.

Anyway, webchick wrote (comment #27):

Well, we might be able to put Date module on d.o. Could you open a separate issue for that (probably in the "Drupal.org Infrastructure" queue)?

So here is the issue. If it's easier (for the time-being) to just add the Date module to the dev server I'm working on: http://docs-infra-drupal.redesign.devdrupal.org , that would be fine. That's where we need it right now, anyway.

Cheers,

Lowell Montgomery (LoMo)