On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
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> That's there because `utcoffset()` is defined to return minutes.

More accurately, it returns "a timedelta object representing a whole number of minutes":

time.utcoffset()

If tzinfo is None, returns None, else returns self.tzinfo.utcoffset(None), and raises an exception if the latter doesn’t return None or a timedelta object representing a whole number of minutes with magnitude less than one day.