[Gnumed-bugs] Re: Python does not support years below 1900 in formatting

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:32:05AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> On 13-Apr-09, at 5:30 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
>> Uh oh, there we go. This platform's Python does not support
>> years below 1900 in formatting :-((
>
> Does this mean all current GNUmed will break on patients whose year of 
> birth is 1899 or less
None of the current GNUmed will break (by itself it handles
those years just fine) but all of the known-to-me Pythons
will break (which really is almost the same thing).

> One unhappy workaround would be to change the YOB to 1900 and to put the 
> correct YOB in a cave...
Yes.

> is there any other workaround?
None I can think of offhand. Maybe put the correct year in
the identity comment(, too).

One workaround is to

        try:
        except:

all datetime formatting in the client but that's rather
impractical given the gazillion places we (need to) do so.

Karsten
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