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For technical reasons, :meth:`strftime` method does not support
- dates with year < 1000: ``t.strftime(format)`` will raise a
- :exc:`ValueError` even if ``format`` does not contain ``%Y``
- directive. The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full
- [1, 9999] range, but years < 1000 must be zero-filled to 4-digit
- width.
+ dates before year 1000: ``t.strftime(format)`` will raise a
+ :exc:`ValueError` when ``t.year < 1000`` even if ``format`` does
+ not contain ``%Y`` directive. The :meth:`strptime` method can
+ parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but years < 1000 must be
+ zero-filled to 4-digit width.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
In previous versions, :meth:`strftime` method was restricted to