[Python-ideas] Reduce platform dependence of date and time related functions

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:08 PM, <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

> fromtimestamp(timestamp, timezone.utc).
>
> And anyway, I was listing it as _another example_ of a function in
> datetime which is limited by the range of time_t, not as one that is
> somehow "the same as" gmtime. And even if you want to play this game,
> you are WRONG WRONG WRONG about utcfromtimestamp:
>

I would say this is a bug.  Is fromtimestamp(timestamp, timezone.utc)
similarly affected?  Please submit a bug report.
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