[egenix-users] Incorrect handle of 2 digit year in ARPA module

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Arso - Gentoo wrote:
> This happen on Li nux Gentoo using package egenix-mx-base-2.0.5.
> 
> Parsing a date in format 'Wed, 14 Sep 05 11:28:48 +0100' with
> DateTime.ARPA.ParseDateTimeUTC('Wed, 14 Sep 05 11:28:48 +0100')
> occurs the error
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/DateTime/ARPA.py", line 155,
> in ParseDateTimeGMT
>     return DateTime.DateTime(year,month,day,hour,minute,second) - offset
> TypeError: an integer is required
> 
> this becouse after the split in date items at line 133
> litday,day,litmonth,month,year,hour,minute,second,zone = date.groups()
> the missing century is handled by calling
> DateTime.add_century(year)
> while year is string, so the add_century does not work.
> 
> I suggest tu use instead on line 135
> DateTime.add_century(atoi(year))
> 
> The same on line 67 and 98.

Thanks.

While I'll add support for 2-digit years, I'd like to
encourage everyone to use the 4-digit year representation
instead. This is also the format defined in the documentation
and the one used throughout the Internet nowadays:

	http://rfc.sunsite.dk/rfc/rfc2822.html

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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