Guido van Rossum wrote:
Gosh, time computations are full of surprises, even of you disregard the Julian calendar and leap seconds. :-(
There was a quote about God creating time in order to confuse man that I can't find it now. I did find this link:
http://www.naggum.no/lugm-time.html
I looks like Erik put a lot of work into it.
Neil