# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1423355089 -3600
# Node ID b7edaea101758cc19b3c7d5254470da4c870a41d
# Parent  3fe1e159ccc59a3a2aeb1cad98b87e53b7fc3bb4
Introduced get_datetime_item function and method returning datetime and
accompanying attributes for datetime object properties.

diff -r 3fe1e159ccc5 -r b7edaea10175 imiptools/data.py
--- a/imiptools/data.py	Sat Feb 07 23:35:49 2015 +0100
+++ b/imiptools/data.py	Sun Feb 08 01:24:49 2015 +0100
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@
     def get_utc_datetime(self, name):
         return get_utc_datetime(self.details, name)
 
+    def get_datetime_item(self, name):
+        return get_datetime_item(self.details, name)
+
     def to_node(self):
         return to_node({self.objtype : [(self.details, self.attr)]})
 
@@ -220,9 +223,12 @@
     return get_values(d, name, False)
 
 def get_utc_datetime(d, name):
+    dt, attr = get_datetime_item(d, name)
+    return to_utc_datetime(dt)
+
+def get_datetime_item(d, name):
     value, attr = get_item(d, name)
-    dt = get_datetime(value, attr)
-    return to_utc_datetime(dt)
+    return get_datetime(value, attr), attr
 
 def get_addresses(values):
     return [address for name, address in email.utils.getaddresses(values)]