[Zope] "The strange DateTime"

[Andreas Jung]

The DateTime parser is odd in many ways. Feel free to submit a patch ;-)

-aj

--On Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2003 09:24 +0200 Rares Vernica 
<verni0@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, that's not a valid DateTime.
> The funny thing is that I don't get any error message.
> ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Rares
>
>> From: Andreas Jung <lists@andreas-jung.com>
>> Reply-To: Andreas Jung <lists@andreas-jung.com>
>> To: Rares Vernica <verni0@hotmail.com>, zope@zope.org
>> Subject: Re: [Zope] "The strange DateTime"
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:46:00 +0100
>>
>> DateTime tries to be smart but it is not always all the time.
>> On the other hand 23/23/23 is not a valid date.
>>
>> -aj
>>
>> --On Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 12:45 +0200 Rares Vernica
>> <verni0@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a real nice one here.
>>>
>>>>>> import DateTime
>>>>>> a=DateTime.DateTime("23/23/23")
>>>>>> a
>>> DateTime('2003/01/29')
>>>
>>> Today is 29-01-2003.
>>> Can you help me, maybe I'm wrong?!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Rares
>>>
>>>
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