2013/9/19 Mark Bakker <mark...@gmail.com>:
> Hello List,
>
> When I use datestr2num('2010-05') it nicely converts that to a number
> representing the date.
> When I convert that number back with num2date, it turns out it sets the day
> to the 19th of the month. The dime is 0:00:00.
> Any reason it is set to the 19th instead of the first?
> Maybe because today it the 19th, or is that just a coincidence?

datestr2num calls dateutil.parser.parse, which by default uses the
current date at 00:00:00 for missing fields. The dateutil function
also can use a "default" argument to change this bahavoir but it is
not available in datestr2num.

http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-a23e8ae0a661d77b89dfb3476f85b26f0b30349c

Goyo

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