James Abbatiello <abb...@gmail.com> added the comment: Further investigation shows that MS asctime() doesn't like leap seconds and causes an assertion when passing (2008, 12, 31, 23, 59, 60, 2, 366, -1) -> 'Wed Dec 31 23:59:60 2008'.
Given that and since asctime() is such a simple function I think it makes more sense to roll our own. Attached is a rough patch which does this. It pulls the bounds checking used in strftime() out into its own function so it can be used in both places. Overriding ctime() is necessary because Windows decided to use " %02d" instead of "%3d" to print the day of the month. Without overriding ctime() the output of ctime(t) would be different from asctime(localtime(t)) and cause test_conversion() to fail. There is a USE_SYSTEM_ASCTIME switch to decide whether to use the system asctime() or the internal one. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14628/asctime.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6608> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
