Dates before 01/01/1900 crashes the GUI

[Similys]

We are developping a cemetery management module in openERP.

We have dead people who were born before 1900.

We have found two problems in openerp-web:

1 - The date control calendar is restricted and cannot go below 01/01/1900

2 - There are validation errors raised from openerp/i18n/format.py when trying to save

Point 1, the javascript widget can be easily fixed in

 openerp/static/calandar/calendar.js

 => find:

  param_default("range",[1900,2999])

 => and replace with:

  param_default("range",[1,2999])

Point 2, replace in

 openerp/i18n/format.py

 => find the two occurances of:

  return time.strftime(server_format, value)

 => and replace with:

  return mx.DateTime.Date(value[0],value[1],value[2],value[3],value[4],value[5]).strftime(server_format)

Question: how should I process if I want this fix to be included in the trunk of openerp-web ?
 What is the process ? Who is doing quality checking ?

Thanks for your support,

Tristan - Similys

[Xavier (Open ERP) (xmo-deactivatedaccount)]

The usual way would be to either create your own branch and propose a merge, or create a patch and attach it on this bug.

Now on your proposals, I have yet to check to code paths you're mentioning but from a quick reading of your comment:
* have you tested them on your side? I don't know if the server itself can handle that kind of ranges
* the first change is ok, though I doubt there is a real need to handle 3000 years, maybe a start date in the 1700s or 1800s would be sufficient no?
* the second fix doesn't look very good, and mx.DateTime isn't used anymore in trunk. I would suggest checking how others have solved that issue (I'm sure openerp-web isn't the first package ever to encounter this limitation of Python) and learn from it. For instance, Django has an utility package specifically for that kind of troubles (http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/utils/datetime_safe.py), as long as we include django's copyright notice in the file I believe we could use it to no ill effect.

[Navrang Oza (noz-tiny)]

Hello Similys,

What is status at your side for Xavier's comment on your bug ?
Did you check this from your side ?

You are still facing this problem ?

Please check it once.
Thanks.