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| author | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2009-04-02 04:34:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2009-04-02 04:34:04 (GMT) |
| commit | d56bab47f1c8432f4d7d3b92d0b8f8320f369fb7 (patch) | |
| tree | 6bb2d8a2440aa86132103c313535318542fe8a66 | |
| parent | 5053fbbb38b7b8bc8207e2d27c32c7b82ce3172f (diff) | |
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Clarify that datetime strftime does not produce leap seconds and datetime
strptime does not accept it in the strftime behavior section of the
datetime docs.
Closes issue 2568.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/datetime.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 0996276..5539c5a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1629,8 +1629,12 @@ Notes: the output hour field if the ``%I`` directive is used to parse the hour. (3) - The range really is ``0`` to ``61``; this accounts for leap seconds and the - (very rare) double leap seconds. + The range really is ``0`` to ``61``; according to the Posix standard this + accounts for leap seconds and the (very rare) double leap seconds. + The :mod:`time` module may produce and does accept leap seconds since + it is based on the Posix standard, but the :mod:`datetime` module + does not accept leap seconds in :func:`strptime` input nor will it + produce them in :func:`strftime` output. (4) When used with the :func:`strptime` function, ``%U`` and ``%W`` are only used in |