Report missing/unknown dates in posts (#2505, #2506)

Signed-off-by: Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
getnikola · Sep 25, 2016 · de83db3 · ralsina · Sep 25, 2016 · Kwpolska
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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ New in master
 Bugfixes
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+* Report missing/unknown dates in posts with filenames
+  (Issues #2505, #2506)
+* Report filename of post that raised exception when scanning
+  (Issue #2505)
 * Accept ``page`` and ``pages`` for the ``type`` field in post lists
 * Don’t crash if a post list has no posts (Issue #2489)
 

diff --git a/nikola/post.py b/nikola/post.py
@@ -176,7 +176,10 @@ def __init__(
                     os.stat(self.source_path).st_ctime).replace(tzinfo=dateutil.tz.tzutc()).astimezone(tzinfo)
 
         # If time zone is set, build localized datetime.
-        self.date = to_datetime(self.meta[self.default_lang]['date'], tzinfo)
+        try:
+            self.date = to_datetime(self.meta[self.default_lang]['date'], tzinfo)
+        except ValueError:
+            raise OSError("Invalid date '{0}' in file {1}".format(self.meta[self.default_lang]['date'], source_path))
 
         if 'updated' not in default_metadata:
             default_metadata['updated'] = default_metadata.get('date', None)