[1.1.X] Fixed #12524 -- Clarified handling of pre-1000AD dates in datetime_safe (and thus, the serializers). Patch includes moving the datetime_safe tests into the utils regressiontests module. Thanks to gsf for the report and initial patch.

Backport of r12423 from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.1.X@12424 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

4 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/__init__.py b/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
--- a/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/models.py b/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/models.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
--- a/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/models.py
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/utils/datetime_safe.py
index e1fe2b0f0e..6c3e7df359 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/datetime_safe/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/utils/datetime_safe.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-r"""
+"""
 >>> from datetime import date as original_date, datetime as original_datetime
 >>> from django.utils.datetime_safe import date, datetime
 >>> just_safe = (1900, 1, 1)
@@ -34,4 +34,11 @@ True
 '00'
 >>> datetime(*just_safe).strftime('%y')
 '00'
+
+>>> date(1850, 8, 2).strftime("%Y/%m/%d was a %A")
+'1850/08/02 was a Friday'
+
+# Regression for #12524 -- Check that pre-1000AD dates are padded with zeros if necessary
+>>> date(1, 1, 1).strftime("%Y/%m/%d was a %A")
+'0001/01/01 was a Monday'
 """
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/utils/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/utils/tests.py
index aaa2944511..812276b554 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/utils/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/utils/tests.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject
 import timesince
 import datastructures
 import dateformat
+import datetime_safe
 import itercompat
 from decorators import DecoratorFromMiddlewareTests
 from functional import FunctionalTestCase
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ except NameError:
 __test__ = {
     'timesince': timesince,
     'datastructures': datastructures,
+    'datetime_safe': datetime_safe,
     'itercompat': itercompat,
 }