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Unexpected date parsing #434

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piskvorky opened this issue May 2, 2017 · 2 comments · Fixed by #655
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Unexpected date parsing #434

piskvorky opened this issue May 2, 2017 · 2 comments · Fixed by #655
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@piskvorky
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piskvorky commented May 2, 2017

Weird bugs were tracked to Arrow parsing dates incorrectly (and silently):

import arrow
arrow.__version__
# 0.10.0
arrow.get('2016')
# <Arrow [1970-01-01T00:33:36+00:00]>

Is that expected/intended? What is Arrow interpreting the string 2016 as?

Also, this was not what I expected:

arrow.get('05/02/2017', ['YYYY', 'MM/DD/YYYY'])
# <Arrow [2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00]>
arrow.get('05/02/2017', ['MM/DD/YYYY', 'YYYY'])
# <Arrow [2017-05-02T00:00:00+00:00]>

Format order matters, and if order wrong, produce silent errors?

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pganssle commented May 2, 2017 via email

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I have another example that indicates arrow doing greedy matching and producing wrong results:

arrow.get('Jun-2019', ['MMM-YY', 'MMM-YYYY'])
<Arrow [2020-06-01T00:00:00+00:00]>

arrow.get('Jun-2019', ['MMM-YYYY', 'MMM-YY'])
<Arrow [2019-06-01T00:00:00+00:00]>

In the first example it matches incorrectly with MMM-YY.
But if you put MMM-YYYY first, than it matches with the correct pattern

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