[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.600,1.601

tim_one@users.sourceforge.net tim_one@users.sourceforge.net
Sat, 04 Jan 2003 10:17:38 -0800


Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv13081/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
datetime_from_timet_and_us():  ignore leap seconds if the platform
localtime()/gmtime() insists on delivering them, + associated doc
changes.

Redid the docs for datetimtez.astimezone().


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	4 Jan 2003 06:03:15 -0000	1.600
--- NEWS	4 Jan 2003 18:17:36 -0000	1.601
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*** 51,54 ****
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    ends.  See new docs for details.
  
+   The constructors building a datetime from a timestamp could raise
+   ValueError if the platform C localtime()/gmtime() inserted "leap
+   seconds".  Leap seconds are ignored now.  On such platforms, it's
+   possible to have timestamps that differ by a second, yet where
+   datetimes constructed from them are equal.
+ 
  Library
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