Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> I am not sure.   At this stage treat 12 as a placeholder for whatever
> the relevant standard says.

Believe it or not, at least one standard, RFC 2822, allows any offset
representable as HHMM: "the zone MUST be within the range -9959
through +9959" <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html>.

I am inclined to simply remove any range checking and allow arbitrary
timedelta as an offset.

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