On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Wayne Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you know of a work around?

You could use a regular expression match to check the format. Something like
import re
dateRe = re.compile(r'\d\d\d\d/\d\d/\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d')
if dateRe.match(d1):
  # handle correctly formatted date
else:
  # handle incorrect date

Kent
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