[Zope3-dev] datetimeutil.py for the rest of us

[Martijn Faassen]

Stuart Bishop wrote:

> 
>     - If an ambiguous datetime format is parsed, it assumes US format.
>       I feel that this case should instead raise an exception.
>       If US programmers insist on being able to write broken code,
>       seperate US specific methods could be made available in
>       datetimeutils.py or a seperate US centric module.

I strongly agree that the datetime parser should *not* try to make sense 
of wrong data. If the format says mm-dd-yy and the date doesn't fit in 
it as it's dd-mm-yy, it should fail, and verse versa. I'm not the only 
one who has run into bugs (outside of Zope, mind) because people insist 
of doing it the Perl way and guess at it, instead of doing it the Python 
way and refusing to guess.

Regards,

Martijn