Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I didn't know that datetime is "extremely bad at representing time
> stamps", could you explain please?

- there is no easy way to convert it into "seconds since the epoch"
- any broken-down time has issues of time stamp ordering in the
  duplicate hour of switching from DST to normal time
- time zone support is flaky-to-nonexistent in the datetime module

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