From c6ec50ccdfbdb48adf68282463f673150283c560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Laska <jlaska@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:00:18 -0400
Subject: Detect the older time and adjust start/end date appropriately

---
 get-mediawiki-data | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/get-mediawiki-data b/get-mediawiki-data
index da80642..a525206 100755
--- a/get-mediawiki-data
+++ b/get-mediawiki-data
@@ -167,6 +167,18 @@ def list_usercontribs(wiki, user, date_start='', date_end='', namespaces=""):
         query['ucend'] = date_end
     if namespaces != '':
         query['ucnamespace'] = namespaces
+    if date_start != '' and date_end != '':
+        # if we can recognize the date format, see if we need to add ucdir
+        try:
+            date_start = re.sub('[TZ]', ' ', date_start).strip()
+            date_end = re.sub('[TZ]', ' ', date_end).strip()
+            ds = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_start, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+            de = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_end, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+            if ds < de:
+                query['ucdir'] = 'newer'
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+
 
     if opts.debug: print query
     response = wiki.call(query)
-- 
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