On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> A timezone that >> implements 23:59:59 + 1s = 23:59:60 and 23:59:60 + 1s = 00:00:00 can >> just as easily implement 23:59:59 + 1s = 23:59:59(repeated) and >> 23:59:59(repeated) + 1s = 00:00:00. > > > Maybe I'm getting hung up on purity over practicality -- but this sure seem > slike logic that should not be in the timezone object -- it has nothing to > do with time zones.
It has everything to do with timezones. The information about historical addition of leap seconds is and will be distributed with the timezone databases. This is what Olson's distribution has always done and what IANA intends to continue. See [1] for more details. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tzdist-service-11#section-5.6 _______________________________________________ Datetime-SIG mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/datetime-sig The PSF Code of Conduct applies to this mailing list: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
