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Author	vstinner
Recipients	SilentGhost, Trundle, belopolsky, georg.brandl, ned.deily, sandro.tosi, vstinner, wsanchez
Date	2011-01-03.12:27:06
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Message-id	<1294057631.91.0.0155272491228.issue8013@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time-y2kissues > "Values 100–1899 are always illegal." Why are these values illegal? The GNU libc accepts year in [1900-2^31; 2^31-1] (tm_year in [-2147483648; 2147481747]). If time.accept2dyear=False, we should at least accept years in [1; 9999]. The system libc would raise an error (return NULL) if it doesn't know how to format years older than 1900.

> http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time-y2kissues
> "Values 100–1899 are always illegal."

Why are these values illegal? The GNU libc accepts year in [1900-2^31; 2^31-1] (tm_year in [-2147483648; 2147481747]). If time.accept2dyear=False, we should at least accept years in [1; 9999]. The system libc would raise an error (return NULL) if it doesn't know how to format years older than 1900.

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