[Zope-dev] DateTime, strftime and TimeError

[Andreas Jung]

--On Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 18:34 Uhr +0200 Santi Camps 
<scamps at earcon.com> wrote:

> En/na Andreas Jung ha escrit:
>
>>
>>
>> --On Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2005 16:08 Uhr +0200 Santi Camps
>> <scamps at earcon.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  >> 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
>>>
>>
>> After some testing: datetime has the same problems and it is unlikely
>> that we can solve
>> this problem in Zope as long as the underlying implementation in the
>> libc sux (or better is
>> constrained on 32 bit systems).
>>
>> -aj
>
> At least is possible to fix the problem in strftime method.   I attach a
> patch that works for me.   Hope this can be commited.
>
>

If you provide some unittests then this would make a perfect patch :-)

-aj

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