Message 158207 - Python tracker

The point isn’t that time.strptime validates dates but that it uses datetime internally:

julian = datetime_date(year, month, day).toordinal() - \
                      datetime_date(year, 1, 1).toordinal() + 1

Is it worth to reimplement this functionality?  It strikes easier to me to just use a different year if year is undefined and date == Feb 29.