[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Mark Lawrence]

On 28/07/2015 07:54, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [Tim]
>>>> timedelta objects only store days, seconds, and microseconds,
>>
>> [Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com>]
>>> Except that they don't actually store days. They store 24 hour
>>> periods,
>>
>> Not really.  A timedelta is truly an integer number of microseconds,
>> and that's all.
>
> That's what I said. Timedeltas, internally assume that 1 day is 24
> hours. Or 86400000 microseconds. That's the assumption internally in
> the timedelta object.
>
> The problem with that being that in the real world that's not true.
>

In my real world it is.  We clearly have parallel worlds.

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Mark Lawrence