[Zope-dev] DateTime, strftime and TimeError

Santi Camps scamps at earcon.com
Wed May 11 10:33:48 EDT 2005


En/na Andrew Langmead ha escrit:

> On May 11, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Santi Camps wrote:
>
>> I think its known that using strftime method of DateTime module with 
>> dates <= 1900 or >= 2038, a TimeError is raised.   For instance:
>>
>
>
> DateTime can handle dates with larger ranges, it just can't display 
> them with the strftime method.
>
> DateTime's strftime method is impelemented with the standard C 
> libraries' strftime(), and a C time_t datatype only represents dates 
> between 1970 and 2038.
>
>
Yes, I know, but displaying them through a datetime.datetime object the 
display can also work fine.   That's my proposal.

Santi Camps


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