On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Ethan Furman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/02/2015 10:32 AM, Łukasz Rekucki wrote: > > I don't have much time to respond now, but please don't add leap seconds. >> People >> are actively working to get rid of them entirely and they are never >> useful on the >> business level which this module is aimed at. >> > > I don't know whether we should add support for leap-seconds to the new > strict tzinfo, but I will mention that the proposal to get rid of them > keeps being postponed, and leap seconds are actively harming the business > community precisely because they are not being accounted for. > I like the idea of using a special tzinfo to reveal the leap seconds for those who really want them. (And we won't have to provide such a tzinfo -- it's enough that one could be written, given a table of leap seconds.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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