Feature Requests item #1777412, was opened at 2007-08-20 05:36
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>Category: Python Library
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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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
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>>> 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?

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-08-21 10:15

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This is not a bug report, but a feature request. Python works correctly
as-is.

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