guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg wed apr 2 2008 836 pm wrote ralf anyone care take look ralf httpbugspythonorgissue2014 ralf xmlrpclib able send datetime objects ralf dates 1900 actually xmlrpclib limitation datetimestrftime thats known limitation heres comment datetime code give year 1900 python strftime plays games year different games depending whether envar python2k set makes years 1900 nightmare even platform strftime supports could get lot farther avoiding pythons strftime wrapper calling c strftime directly isnt option python implementation module turn calls timestrftime calls underlying systems strftime library function personally dont think patching xmlrpclib right place fix problem possible datetime comment longer correct limitation reconsidered see mention python2k c h py files trunk id like see fixed possible im sure c level struct tm year 1900 tm_year member im sure implementations required anything negative values wed reimplement strftime im higher priorities guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 234013 0700 pythondev xmlrpclib dates 1900