On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Greg Hennessy <greg.henne...@cox.net> wrote: > On 2010-07-20, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you have a sufficiently recent version of Python, have you >>considered time.strptime: >>http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime ? > > Given the documentation talks about "double leap seconds" which don't > exist, why should this code be trusted?
Because they exist(ed) in POSIX. See http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html : """ The standards committees decided that POSIX time should be UTC, but the early POSIX standards inexplicably incorporated a concept which never existed in UTC -- the ``double leap second''. This mistake reportedly existed in the POSIX standard from 1989, and it persisted in POSIX until at least 1997. """ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
