Hi Eric,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Suggestions on how to handle this case would be welcome, of course.
>>
>> I created a patch so that the date and time string is built directly
>> from the iCal data for times before the epoch. This function produces
>> valid date/time strings albeit without weekday info.
>>
>> Patch file is attached.
>
> Excellent.  Thanks for this.  Can you update the file on Worg directly?
> If not, I will try to do it.
>
> One point, however.  Should the first return statement in your
> datetimestring(input) function (see last line in patch excerpt below)
> refer to "input" instead of "datetmp"?  What you have works because of
> all variables being global but is less clear than using the argument, I
> would suggest?

It should be "timestamp" rather than "datetmp" :(

I have attached the corrected patch.

I don't know whether I have access to Worg.
Would you mind updating it?

> Thanks again,

My pleasure,