raw date crash

[aaa34169]

Hi

does anyone get a invalid raw date error

i have no idea how to fix that

[davisp]

Odd, can you show what you get from running this in the python prompt?

import time
print time.strftime('%z')

I'm guessing its giving you "GMT Standard Time" which should theoretically be a number like -0:00. Assuming that's what it is you'll want to either figure out how to make your time.strftime('%z') call return an appropriate timezone offset instead of a random string name.

[mikofski]

The issue is that the OP and myself are using Python-2.7 not Python-3.x in which the lower case '%z' escape is not guaranteed to return the hour offset. See this SO answer and the footnote in the Python-2 docs for time.

The solutions are:

1. use Python-3 instead of Python-2

2. send a PR to this repo, to change L120 to:

    currtz = datetime.now(tz.tzlocal()).strftime('%z')
   

   NOTE: you must import tz from dateutil in this module to use tz.tzlocal()

works for both versions of Python on all platforms (win32, darwin, linux2).

[osinimu]

Did this work? Having a similar issue

I tried @mikofski suggestions but nothing changed

[mikofski]

But @osinimu you are still using Python-2.7, not Python-3. Can you please try Python-3? You can install Python-3.6 side-by-side with Python-2.7, use virtualenv in either Python 2 or 3 to create a Python-3 virtual environment, and then just install the packages you need for Pelican.

~/osinimu (pelican) $ virtualenv -p /c/Program\ Files/Python36/python.exe venv3
~/osinimu (pelican) $ source venv3/bin/activate
(venv3) ~/osinimu (pelican) $ pip install pelican ghp-import

[c-w]

This has been released in 0.6.0.