On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Note that an early prototype required the offset to be specified in minutes. [1]  


.. and the idea of allowing (float) number of hours was also discussed [2] and ultimately rejected.

[1]: http://bugs.python.org/issue5094#msg106911
[2]: http://bugs.python.org/issue5094#msg106980