Consider the following birthdays (as dob):
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 years?
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)