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Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: IANA is now distributing Olson's timezone database software which includes an implementation of strftime(): http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2012b.tar.gz The code was designated as public domain by Arthur David Olson, but it seem

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Éric Araujo added the comment: > Maybe rather than spending the effort maintaining a legacy API such as > strftime, someone could > look into implementing localized date formatting as defined by recent Unicode > standards: > http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns This scheme is

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STINNER Victor added the comment: Is nl_langinfo() function reliable? On any OS? Can we use it to get day name, abbreviated day name, month name and abbreviated month name? We should maybe start with an implementation in Python? It's easier to write code in Python than in C, and because it ca

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STINNER Victor added the comment: The Qt library has its own strftime() implementation. The QLocale object has methods providing localized day and month names. For example, day names are implemented using a big ushort array (~20.000 bytes) which contains something like 'Sun;Mon;Tue;Wed;Thu;F

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Guido van Rossum added the comment: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > If we're going to take this on (re-writing strftime), I think the way to do > it is to have it take the locale info as a parameter, and if that parameter > is NULL then look up the info in the current loc

[issue3173] external strftime for Python?

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Eric Smith wrote: .. > If we're going to take this on (re-writing strftime), I think the way to do > it is to have it take the locale info as a > parameter, and if that parameter is NULL then look up the info in the curren

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Eric Smith added the comment: I think we're stuck with strftime for quite a while, no matter how ugly it is. datetime.__format__ uses it, for example. Although maybe it's possible to write an strftime-format to new-format translator. If we're going to take this on (re-writing strftime), I thi

[issue3173] external strftime for Python?

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: Maybe rather than spending the effort maintaining a legacy API such as strftime, someone could look into implementing localized date formatting as defined by recent Unicode standards: http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns Apparently the

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Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: .. > What about the licensing? That look like the BSD license *with* > advertising clause... > I am not a lawyer and I am not intimately familiar with PSF policies, but this license does not look

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Guido van Rossum added the comment: What about the licensing? That look like the BSD license *with* advertising clause... -- nosy: +gvanrossum ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: PyPy also calls the platform's strftime(). -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: What platforms have broken strftime and how badly is it broken there? Is there a python version somewhere? PyPy? -- assignee: -> belopolsky nosy: +belopolsky type: -> feature request ___ Python tracker

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STINNER Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The issue #1777412 has a working patch (for Python 2.6) which allows year < 1900 in time.strftime() and datetime.datetime.strftime(). -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Good question. I don't claim that the strftime.c I found is complete for our needs, only that we can avoid the "rewrite strftime from scratch" problem Guido indicated. S ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECT

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Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: So how does it work for non-English locales? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

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Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Ummm... I think I only modified timemodule.c. datetimemodule.c probably needs a tweak as well. I need to get this off my desk though. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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New submission from Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Back in April we had a thread on xmlrpclib's problematic handling of dates before 1900: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/93273/focus=93309 I'm still of the opinion that strftime() is the culprit and xmlrpclib is just an