[Zope-dev] DateTime, strftime and TimeError

[Santi Camps]

Hi all,

I think its known that using strftime method of DateTime module with 
dates <= 1900 or >= 2038, a TimeError is raised.   For instance:

 >> d = DateTime('2045/30/01')
 >> d.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
DateTime.DateTime.TimeError: The time 2369343600.000000 is beyond the 
range of this Python implementation

I've read that the reason was a validation to avoid int overflows.   I 
think this could be fixed using datetime module (new in python 2.3) 
instead of old time.localtime

Do you think its a good idea ?   Can I provide a patch that way ?

Thanks

Santi Camps