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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Apr 4 05:59:13 CEST 2008

Someone else will have to do a thorough code review. Last time we got something off the web it turned out to be awful (the float formatting code -- I'm still reeling from that one).

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

Guido> Thinking about it more, given the slim chances that we'll Guido> reimplement strftime, I think it's okay to fix this for xmlrpc Guido> specifically. Is there some reason we can't incorporate a suitable open source implementation of strftime into the Python core? Here's one example that might provide a suitable starting point (BSD 4.4, then Tcl, then Apple heritage): http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/WWDC2003/tcl-10/tcl/compat/strftime.c It would probably need some tweaks for Windows, and some changes to the macro usage. Then there is the 1900 base year issue. I'm certainly no licensing expert, but it seems like we should be able to redistribute it. Skip

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