[Psycopg] problem with datetime prior to 1960

[Christian Ledermann]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:34 PM, James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au>
wrote:

> 1. There is a bug in psycopg's time parsing code (parsing of time
> zones in particular), where it doesn't return NULL after detecting an
> error while parsing the time zone.  This causes the error to present
> itself at a later
>
> 2. Even with that error fixed, the data won't be parsed because it is
> only set up to accept time zones that Python will accept.  As Python's
> datetime module only handles time zone offsets that are a whole number
> of minutes, the offset "+02:44:45" can't be represented.
>

So I guess i will be better of defining my datetimes without  timezones, as
this strange timezone  is returned by  postgres  for dates before 1960.

thanks
christian
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