Is Python Y2K (Year 2000) Compliant?

As of August, 2003 no major problems have been reported and Y2K compliance seems to be a non-issue.

Python does very few date calculations and for those it does perform relies on the C library functions. Python generally represents times either as seconds since 1970 or as a (year, month, day, …) tuple where the year is expressed with four digits, which makes Y2K bugs unlikely. So as long as your C library is okay, Python should be okay. Of course, it’s possible that a particular application written in Python makes assumptions about 2-digit years.

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