Issue2285

$ LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" python2.7 -c "import time; print(time.strptime('Thu, 01-Jan-1970', '%a, %d-%b-%Y'))"
time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
$ LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" jython2.7 -c "import time; print(time.strptime('Thu, 01-Jan-1970', '%a, %d-%b-%Y'))"
time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
$ LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" jython2.7 -c "import time; print(time.strptime('Thu, 01-Jan-1970', '%a, %d-%b-%Y'))"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/jython-2.7/Lib/_strptime.py", line 467, in _strptime_time
    return _strptime(data_string, format)[0]
  File "/usr/share/jython-2.7/Lib/_strptime.py", line 324, in _strptime
    raise ValueError("time data %r does not match format %r" %
ValueError: time data u'Thu, 01-Jan-1970' does not match format u'%a, %d-%b-%Y'
$

Jython currently only implements the C locale fallback in the pure Python locale module. This should be fixed, but it's too late for 2.7.0

I'm getting a UnicodeDecodeError instead.

Unicode error Alex sees is also reported as issue 2503.

The biggest problem here seems to be the locale dependent `%b` directive. At least in our usage `strptime` has worked fine otherwise.

(Second attempt to link to issue #2503.)