- Collector #279: changed exception handling for safegmtime() to

        provide a more intuitive traceback for operating systems with a
        limited gmtime() implementations

doc/CHANGES.txt

@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ Zope Changes
       - Collector #278: DocumentWithImages could not handle URLs with
         underscores
 
+      - Collector #279: changed exception handling for safegmtime() to
+        provide a more intuitive traceback for operating systems with a 
+        limited gmtime() implementations
+
+
   Zope 2.5.1 beta 1
     
     Bugs Fixed

lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 ##############################################################################
 """Encapsulation of date/time values"""
 
-__version__='$Revision: 1.77 $'[11:-2]
+__version__='$Revision: 1.78 $'[11:-2]
 
 
 import re,sys, os, math,  DateTimeZone
@@ -385,11 +385,10 @@ def safegmtime(t):
     '''gmtime with a safety zone.'''
     try:
         t_int = int(t)
-    except OverflowError:
+        return  gmtime(t_int)
+    except (IOError, OverflowError):
         raise 'TimeError', 'The time %f is beyond the range ' \
               'of this Python implementation.' % float(t)
-    rval = gmtime(t_int)
-    return rval
 
 def safelocaltime(t):
     '''localtime with a safety zone.'''