[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900 (original) (raw)

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Fri Apr 4 05:28:51 CEST 2008

On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'd like to see this fixed if possible, but I'm not sure how -- the C level 'struct tm' has (year - 1900) in the tmyear member, and I'm not sure that implementations are required to do anything with negative values there. We'd have to reimplement all of strftime ourselves. I'm not against that, but there are higher priorities.

At least on linux, negative values work great. I have no idea if
that's required by the spec or not. Someone would have to test on
other platforms I guess...

James

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