[issue2494] Can't round-trip datetimes<->timestamps prior to 1970 on Windows

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Tue Nov 11 03:58:05 CET 2008


STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

If you doesn't care to the time zone (UTC), use:
>>> datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(seconds=-86400)
datetime.datetime(1969, 12, 31, 0, 0)

This code is portable on Windows, Linux but also works with 
IronPython:
http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=7269

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