OverflowError: mktime argument out of range ???

[John Machin]

On Apr 15, 8:48 pm, Michael Bentley <mich... at jedimindworks.com> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 5:41 AM, Jorgen Bodde wrote:
>
> > This is what I try:
>
> >>>> time.mktime((1928, 12,28, 0, 0, 0,  0, 0, 0))
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
> > OverflowError: mktime argument out of range
>
> Probably depends on your system.

Maybe it does. It sure would be nice to get a definite answer. Pity
nobody documented the time module. Oh yeah, and the secret closed-shop
source code -- damnation! Anyone got a bootleg pirate copy of
timemodule.c lying around anywhere?

>  It doesn't break for me:

Please consider the possibility that it didn't break for the OP
either.

>
>  >>> import time
>  >>> time.mktime((1928, 12,28, 0, 0, 0,  0, 0, 0))
> -1294164000.0
>
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