British Passport Abroad Dates Validator

This script helps with an application of British Pasport / Citizenship. There are several requirements for you if willing to apply. In terms of your history of stay in the UK you must be:

• not more than 450 days in total outside of the UK in last 5 years
• not more than 3 months (~90 days) in total outside of the UK in last 12 months
• not more than 6 months (~180 days) in total outside of the UK in ANY 12-month period within last 5 years

This script calculates that for you.

It needs both:

• a date of submitting your British Passport application, as an argument when run the script, in format DDMMYY, eg:

  $ BPDateValidator.py 101220

• a CSV file (it should be in the same folder as the script) with a list of your flights in format :

DepartDateTime, DepartPlace, IsUK, ArrivePlace, IsUK, Airline, FlNumber, WasCancelled

where:

• DepartDateTime => using DD/MM/YY HH:MM or DD/MM/YY or DD/MM/YYYY format

• IsUK, IsUK, WasCancelled => using "True" or "TRUE" or 1 for True, else False

• DepartPlace, ArrivePlace, Airline, FlNumber => not critical and will NOT change the result of the algorith, however, it can be usefull as it provides an additional information

example csv file, example.csv:

17/05/10 10:40, LIS, FALSE, EDI, TRUE, RyanAir, FR1111, FALSE
27/07/10 13:10, EDI, TRUE, GDN, FALSE, RyanAir, FR2222, FALSE
02/05/11 10:50, WMI, FALSE, PIK, TRUE, RyanAir, FR3333, FALSE
30/07/13 12:20, EDI, TRUE, LPA, FALSE, RyanAir, FR4444, FALSE
07/08/13 10:10, LPA, FALSE, GLA, TRUE, WizzAir, FR5555, FALSE

Result of running the script: