strptime - dates formatted differently on different computers

[Greg Donald]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> The question is not "will it parse", but will it parse CORRECTLY?
>
> What will it parse 11/12/10 as, and how do you know that is the intended
> date?

If it were me I'd look at more of the source dates I was tasked with
parsing and dial it in using the appropriate dayfirst, yearfirst, etc.
options.



-- 
Greg Donald