Bugs item #1777412, was opened at 2007-08-20 13:36 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1777412&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Benno Rice (benno) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Python's strftime dislikes years before 1900 Initial Comment: Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import datetime >>> datetime.date(1876, 2, 3).strftime('%Y-%m-%d') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: year=1876 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900 Apparently this is due to platform-specific weirdnesses in implementations of strftime. It is still very annoying however. Perhaps a good implementation of strftime could be found and incorporated into Python itself? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1777412&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com