Don't convert dates via timestamp (fixes #142).

djc · djc · commit cada5563a93d · 2010-08-07T16:33:07.000+02:00
diff --git a/couchdb/mapping.py b/couchdb/mapping.py
@@ -483,8 +483,7 @@ def _to_python(self, value):
             try:
                 value = value.split('.', 1)[0] # strip out microseconds
                 value = value.rstrip('Z') # remove timezone separator
-                timestamp = timegm(strptime(value, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'))
-                value = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp)
+                value = datetime(*strptime(value, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')[:6])
             except ValueError:
                 raise ValueError('Invalid ISO date/time %r' % value)
         return value
diff --git a/couchdb/tests/mapping.py b/couchdb/tests/mapping.py
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ class Post(mapping.Document):
         post.store(self.db)
         self.assertEqual(len(list(self.db.view('_all_docs'))), 1)
 
+    def test_old_datetime(self):
+        dt = mapping.DateTimeField()
+        assert dt._to_python(u'1880-01-01T00:00:00Z')
 
 class ListFieldTestCase(testutil.TempDatabaseMixin, unittest.TestCase):
 
