On Jul 20, 6:57 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: [regarding trust of POSIX vis a vis leap seconds] > I'm not saying they necessarily should, but they're standardized and > the `time` module is based on POSIX/Unix-ish assumptions; not > following POSIX would be inconsistent and problematic. > <Mr.-Mackey-voice>Breaking standards is bad, M'Kay?</Mr.-Mackey-voice>
Standards are good. When it comes to leap seconds there can be no current implementation which satisfies everyone because of this http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html Until the delegates to ITU-R SG7 produce a better recommendation there is going to be chaotic disregard of the standard where folks with different needs choose different practical implementations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
