From e81d9f9fb2cfd3dea0ed8fc1bd59f4a463b3454e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 18:30:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Make identifiers category go away.

---
 src/calibre/library/server/opds.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/library/server/opds.py b/src/calibre/library/server/opds.py
index 72a802eaa9..0e7ed91388 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/server/opds.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/server/opds.py
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ class OPDSServer(object):
         for category in sorted(categories, key=lambda x: sort_key(getter(x))):
             if len(categories[category]) == 0:
                 continue
-            if category == 'formats':
+            if category == 'formats' or category == 'identifiers':
                 continue
             meta = category_meta.get(category, None)
             if meta is None:

From 22081986c7d41096f7b76e4fdd1b8e3a8a74d6f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:15:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Replace parse_date with an field-extraction parser for
 date conversion in sqlite.py

---
 src/calibre/library/sqlite.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/library/sqlite.py b/src/calibre/library/sqlite.py
index 1b595435ce..f65a640146 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/sqlite.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/sqlite.py
@@ -23,10 +23,24 @@ from calibre.constants import iswindows, DEBUG
 from calibre.utils.icu import strcmp
 from calibre import prints
 
+from dateutil.tz import tzoffset
+
 global_lock = RLock()
 
 def convert_timestamp(val):
     if val:
+        try:
+            year = int(val[0:4])
+            month = int(val[5:7])
+            day = int(val[8:10])
+            hour = int(val[11:13])
+            min = int(val[14:16])
+            sec = int(val[17:19])
+            sign = val[19]
+            tzmins = (int(val[-5:-3])*60 + int(val[-2:])) * (1 if sign == '+' else -1)
+            return datetime(year, month, day, hour, min, sec, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, tzmins))
+        except:
+            pass
         return parse_date(val, as_utc=False)
     return None