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

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013, at 17:15, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Is timegm/gmtime provided and consistent across all Python platforms?

Part of what I was proposing was _to_ provide a consistent
implementation - there's no reason (if we define timestamps as being
objectively based in 1970 and having no leap seconds) that it couldn't
be provided in python itself instead of  using the system's version.