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add docstring about timestamp parsing

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Nick Sweeting 2019-03-30 17:51:23 -04:00
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@ -368,6 +368,11 @@ def parse_date(date: Any) -> Optional[datetime]:
if isinstance(date, str): if isinstance(date, str):
if date.replace('.', '').isdigit(): if date.replace('.', '').isdigit():
# this is a brittle attempt at unix timestamp parsing (which is
# notoriously hard to do). It may lead to dates being off by
# anything from hours to decades, depending on which app, OS,
# and sytem time configuration was used for the original timestamp
# more info: https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/issues/119
timestamp = float(date) timestamp = float(date)
EARLIEST_POSSIBLE = 473403600.0 # 1985 EARLIEST_POSSIBLE = 473403600.0 # 1985