[New-bugs-announce] [issue9005] Year range in timetuple

[Alexander Belopolsky]

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net>:

Current datetime.timetuple() implementation goes out of its way to support edge cases that produce timetuples beyond the naive datetime range:

>>> t1 = datetime.min.replace(tzinfo=timezone.max)
>>> t2 = datetime.max.replace(tzinfo=timezone.min)
>>> print(t1.utctimetuple())
time.struct_time(tm_year=0, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=31, tm_hour=0, tm_min=1, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=6, tm_yday=366, tm_isdst=0)
>>> print(t2.utctimetuple())
time.struct_time(tm_year=10000, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=23, tm_min=58, tm_sec=59, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=0)

The last result is particularly troublesome because it may crash time.asctime on POSIX compliant systems.  See Issue #6608.

tm_year is described in help(time) as 4-digit year suggesting range of [1000, 9999].  Most C libraries support even smaller ranges.

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assignee: belopolsky
components: Extension Modules
messages: 107907
nosy: belopolsky, mark.dickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Year range in timetuple
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2

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