Serializing / Unserializing datetime

[John Machin]

On 29/05/2006 6:27 AM, Gerard Flanagan wrote:

> I don't think it's what you want but I had the following on file - it
> uses time.strptime() which I didn't know there was a problem with. 

In 2.3, time.strptime became a pure-Python routine, thus losing its 
dependency on the existence and correctness of the strptime in the C 
library.

However, the whole time module has a problem: the range of years it 
handles -- 1970 to 2038 (maybe). This is documented on the first page of 
The Fine Manual. Not very useful for customer's date of birth, and (as 
Brendan indicated), likely to cause Y2.038K problems.

Cheers,
John