[SOLVED] ValueError: can't format dates this early

ValueError: can't format dates this early

I am trying to get the Next Run Time of a scheduled task using the ITASKDEFINITION but I am having a trouble getting the NextRunTime I am getting the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "WSTC.py", line 34, in <module>
    print('NextRun    : %s\n' % task.NextRunTime)
ValueError: can't format dates this early

Here is the sample code:

import win32com.client

TASK_ENUM_HIDDEN = 0
TASK_STATE = {0: 'Unknown',
              1: 'Disabled',
              2: 'Queued',
              3: 'Ready',
              4: 'Running'}

scheduler = win32com.client.Dispatch('Schedule.Service')
scheduler.Connect()

folders = [scheduler.GetFolder('\\')]
n = 0
while folders:
    folder = folders.pop(0)
    folders += list(folder.GetFolders(0))
    tasks = list(folder.GetTasks(TASK_ENUM_HIDDEN))

    for task in tasks:
        settings = task.Definition.Settings
        if TASK_STATE[task.State] == 'Running':
            print('Path       : %s' % task.Path)
            print('State      : %s' % TASK_STATE[task.State])
            print('NextRun    : %s\n' % task.NextRunTime)
            n += 1
print ('Listed %d tasks.' % n)

Any assistance or help on this greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Solution

After digging deeper and reading about this error. It seems to be that this issue is only in earlier versions of python (I'm using Python 2.7). I tried upgrading python to the latest version and it returns a date lesser than the year 1900 and no longer throws an ValueError exception.

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