* @param context the context of the value to be set (e.g. the
* corresponding commandline option name)
* @param timestr the string to be parsed
- * @param is_duration a flag which tells how to interpret \p timestr, if
- * not zero \p timestr is interpreted as a duration, otherwise as a
+ * @param is_duration a flag which tells how to interpret timestr, if
+ * not zero timestr is interpreted as a duration, otherwise as a
* date
*
* @see parse_date()