[Python-ideas] use gmtime(0) epoch in functions that use mktime()

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/06/2014 03:19 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 2:56 PM, random832 wrote:
>>
>> But, as I've advocated before, there's no fundamental reason that python
>> should chain itself to the C library's underlying implementation rather
>> than defining its own time functions that do always use an epoch of
>> 1970, and handle leap seconds consistently, have unlimited range, etc.
>
> I'm fine with that, as long as "handle leap seconds consistently" means "pretend they don't exist" (which is necessary
> for compatibility with POSIX). But it sounds like a big coding project. Fixing the docs to be consistent and correctly
> describe the current implementation may be simpler.

Or at least fix the docs until the new project is done, and then we can fix them again.  :)

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~Ethan~