Recently, Jack Jansen said:

Just noted (that's Just-the-person, not me-just-noting:-) that on the Mac time.strftime() can blow up with an access violation if you pass silly values to it (such as 9 zeroes).

Following up to myself, after I just noticed (just-me-noticing, not Just-the-person this time) that all zeros is a legal C value: gettmarg() converts this all-zeroes tuple to (0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 100, 0, -1, 0) Fine with me, apparently Python wants to have human-understandable (1-based) monthnumbers and yeardaynumbers, but then I think it really should also check that the values are in-range. What do others think? -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm