time.strftime in 2.4.1 claims data out of range when not

[Brian van den Broek]

Sheila King said unto the world upon 2005-04-22 02:45:
> I have a web app that has been running just fine for several months under 
> Python 2.2.2.
> 
> We are preparing to upgrade the server to run Python 2.4.1.
> 
> However, part of my web app is throwing an error on this code (that has 
> previously worked without exception):
> 
> 
>>>>time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", (Y, M, D, 0,0,0,0,0,0))
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ValueError: day of year out of range
> 
>>>>Y
> 
> 2005
> 
>>>>M
> 
> 5
> 
>>>>D
> 
> 15L
> 
> 
> I don't see what parts of the date that I have submitted to strftime are out 
> of range?
> 
> Also, the phrasing of the error message is a bit odd?
> "day of year out of range"
> 
> I'm not sure what the
> day of a year
> 
> would be???
> 
> Sheila King
> http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
> 
> 

The day of the year is the ordinal number of the day, counting from 
Jan. 1st. So, Feb. 1st is the 32nd day, Dec 31 the 365/6 (depending on 
leap year).

The docs for the time module indicate that the 8th (counting from 1) 
position of a struct_time is the day of the year, and that it can 
range from 1-366. So, naturally, the 0 value in your 8th position is 
the problem.

That does leave the mystery of why your code worked on 2.2.2; I've no 
idea. The docs do seem to indicate that there were a number of changes 
at 2.2, though.

Best,

Brian vdB