Ben's patch is a definite improvement. I'll tweak it in accordance with my comments and apply the fix here at the sprints. http://bugs.python.org/review/8810/diff/5782/Doc/library/datetime.rst File Doc/library/datetime.rst (right): http://bugs.python.org/review/8810/diff/5782/Doc/library/datetime.rst#newcod... Doc/library/datetime.rst:1013: a magnitude of a whole number of minutes and larger than 24 hours (if not, The offsets actually have to be between -1 day and +1 day http://bugs.python.org/review/8810/diff/5782/Modules/_datetimemodule.c File Modules/_datetimemodule.c (right): http://bugs.python.org/review/8810/diff/5782/Modules/_datetimemodule.c#newco... Modules/_datetimemodule.c:3124: PyDoc_STR("datetime -> DST offset in minutes east of UTC.")}, The C docstrings should match the Python ones http://bugs.python.org/review/8810/