src/l10n.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger('file_only')
 
 DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'ISO8859-1'
 DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 'en_US'
+DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
 
 encoding = DEFAULT_ENCODING
 language = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE
@@ -23,13 +24,38 @@ except:
     logger.exception('Could not determine language or encoding')
 
 
+if shared.config.has_option('bitmessagesettings', 'timeformat'):
     time_format = shared.config.get('bitmessagesettings', 'timeformat')
+    #Test the format string
+    try:
+        time.strftime(time_format)
+    except:
+        time_format = DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT
+else:
+    time_format = DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT
+
 
 def formatTimestamp(timestamp = None, as_unicode = True):
-    if timestamp and isinstance(timestamp, (float, int)):
+    #For some reason some timestamps are strings so we need to sanitize.
-        timestring = time.strftime(time_format, time.localtime(timestamp))
+    if timestamp is not None and not isinstance(timestamp, int):
-    else:
+        try:
+            timestamp = int(timestamp)
+        except:
+            timestamp = None
+
+    #timestamp can't be less than 0.
+    if timestamp is not None and timestamp < 0:
+        timestamp = None
+
+    if timestamp is None:
         timestring = time.strftime(time_format)
+    else:
+        #In case timestamp is too far in the future
+        try:
+            timestring = time.strftime(time_format, time.localtime(timestamp))
+        except ValueError:
+            timestring = time.strftime(time_format)
+
     if as_unicode:
         return unicode(timestring, encoding)
     return timestring