2 digit years using strptime() is not able to parse birthdays very well
Consider the following birthdays (as dob
):
- 1-Jun-68
- 1-Jun-69
When parsed with Python’s datetime.strptime(dob, '%d-%b-%y')
will yield:
datetime.datetime(2068, 6, 1, 0, 0)
datetime.datetime(1969, 6, 1, 0, 0)
Well of course they’re supposed to be born in the same decade but now it’s not even in the same century!
According to the docs this is perfectly valid behaviour:
When 2-digit years are accepted, they are converted according to the POSIX or X/Open standard: values 69-99 are mapped to 1969-1999, and values 0–68 are mapped to 2000–2068.
I understand why the function is set up like this but is there a way to work around this? Perhaps with defining your own ranges for 2-digit yea开发者_运维技巧rs?
If you're always using it for birthdays, just subtract 100 if the year is after now:
if d > datetime.now():
d = datetime(d.year - 100, d.month, d.day)
This function shifts the year to 1950:
def millenium(year, shift=1950):
return (year-shift)%100 + shift
If you're expecting a birthday, you could always just manually massage the data - any date in the future is automatically set back a century, or some such.
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