tests: Add tests for using TW-formatted strings as localized datetime values

[etc/taskwarrior.git] / tasklib / task.py

diff --git a/tasklib/task.py b/tasklib/task.py
index e0e10409451cfeb5d2c38e72453cf980b4b18265..b9103d1c309594ecede2fbeb2bfe4252b5635ea2 100644 (file)
--- a/tasklib/task.py
+++ b/tasklib/task.py
@@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ class SerializingObject(object):
                 # If the value is already localized, there is no need to change
                 # time zone at this point. Also None is a valid value too.
                 localized = value
-        elif isinstance(value, six.string_types):
+        elif (isinstance(value, six.string_types)
+                and self.warrior.version > VERSION_2_4_0):
             # For strings, use 'task calc' to evaluate the string to datetime
+            # available since TW 2.4.0
             args = value.split()
             result = self.warrior.execute_command(['calc'] + args)
             naive = datetime.datetime.strptime(result[0], DATE_FORMAT_CALC)