On 18.1.2016 08:06, Christian Heimes wrote: > On 2016-01-15 13:44, Tomas Babej wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For the dates older than 1900, Python is unable to convert the datetime >> representation to string using strftime: >> >> https://bugs.python.org/issue1777412 >> >> Work around the issue adding a custom method to convert the datetime >> objects to LDAP generalized time strings. >> >> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5579
Dates before 1900? Seriously? This is a bad idea. I would rather catch ValueError and inform the user. We seriously do not need more custom code! Petr^2 Spacek > I noticed that all previous strftime() calls and the new code ignore any > time zone information. This isn't an issue for tz-naive datetime object > that don't have any time zone information attached. You can't fix them > anyway and just hope they are always UTC. For tz-aware datetime object > your approach returns the wrong value. > > You can use datetime.utctimetuple() instead. The method returns a time > tuple in UTC. > >>>> value > datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 18, 8, 2, 49, 646270) >>>> > '{0.tm_year:4d}{0.tm_mon:02d}{0.tm_mday:02d}{0.tm_hour:02d}{0.tm_min:02d}{0.tm_sec:02d}Z'.format(value.utctimetuple()) > '20160118080249Z' > > https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.utctimetuple -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-devel mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel Contribute to FreeIPA: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Contribute/Code