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akoumjian / datefinder

Find dates inside text using Python and get back datetime objects
http://datefinder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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Searching "Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:28:27 -0400" fails to obtain date #184

Open glenstewart opened 1 year ago

glenstewart commented 1 year ago

Great tool - thanks for working on it! I ran into one condition where it seemingly should work, but doesn't:

These are simple, small HTML files... 1.htm: "text": "Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:28:27 -0400", 20.htm: "text": "Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:27:29 -0500", 7.htm: "text": "Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:33:56 PST",

datefinder returns an empty result, using the latest code obtained with pip.

glenstewart commented 1 year ago

It's the prefix "Date: " that's causing the problem. "Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:28:27 -0400" itself works fine.

So odd.

pravsripad commented 1 year ago

I can reproduce this as well. It is the string "Date" followed by colon ":" anywhere in the string that seems to be the issue. With colon and String "Date" separately anywhere else, the results are as expected.

FANGOD commented 1 year ago

generated At Time 2023-10-23T08:20:02+00:00 on same too.