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silmaril

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If only there were libraries for date calculations that programmers could use!

29 February at 16:05 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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Dick Telder

@silmaril @0xabad1dea
yeah, I tried Python today.
(No, I have not dug deeper into what went wrong)
29 February at 22:55 | Open on mastodon.nu
silmaril

@dtelder @0xabad1dea

This is a programming error. The library behaves exactly as documented:
docs.python.org/3/library/date

"For the datetime.strptime() class method, the default value is 1900-01-01T00:00:00.000: any components not specified in the format string will be pulled from the default value."

If you want your software to handle leap years correctly, you have to give it a chance to know which year we are talking about 😉

@dtelder @0xabad1dea

This is a programming error. The library behaves exactly as documented:
docs.python.org/3/library/date

"For the datetime.strptime() class method, the default value is 1900-01-01T00:00:00.000: any components not specified in the format string will be pulled from the default value."

1 March at 11:07 | Open on chaos.social
Dick Telder

@silmaril @0xabad1dea
That was an helpful answer. Thanks!

1 March at 17:50 | Open on mastodon.nu
silmaril

@dtelder
You're welcome!
Because you successfully triggered my curiosity 😁

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1 March at 18:29 | Open on chaos.social
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