Stephan Houben wrote:

Interestingly, that 2.2e-16 pretty much aligns with the accuracy of the
cesium atomic clocks which are currently used to *define* the second.
So we move to this new API, we should provide our own definition
of the second, since those rough SI seconds are just too imprecise for that.

The Python second: 1.1544865564196655e-06 of the time
taken for an unladen swallow to fly from Cape Town
to London.

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Greg
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