[issue14157] time.strptime without a year fails on Feb 29

[Hynek Schlawack]

Hynek Schlawack <hs at ox.cx> added the comment:

The point isn’t that time.strptime validates dates but that it uses datetime internally:

julian = datetime_date(year, month, day).toordinal() - \
                      datetime_date(year, 1, 1).toordinal() + 1

Is it worth to reimplement this functionality?  It strikes easier to me to just use a different year if year is undefined and date == Feb 29.

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