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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-01-19 19:35:18 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-01-19 19:35:18 (GMT)
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Fix second description of handling 2-digit years (last item in
introductory text).
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@@ -80,21 +80,28 @@ this, where available).
\item
The time tuple as returned by \function{gmtime()},
\function{localtime()}, and \function{strptime()}, and accepted by
-\function{asctime()}, \function{mktime()} and \function{strftime()}, is a
-tuple of 9 integers: year (e.g.\ 1993), month (1--12), day (1--31),
-hour (0--23), minute (0--59), second (0--59), weekday (0--6, monday is
-0), Julian day (1--366) and daylight savings flag (-1, 0 or 1).
-Note that unlike the \C{} structure, the month value is a range of 1-12, not
-0-11. A year value less than 100 will typically be silently converted to
-1900 plus the year value. A \code{-1} argument as daylight savings
-flag, passed to \function{mktime()} will usually result in the correct
-daylight savings state to be filled in.
+\function{asctime()}, \function{mktime()} and \function{strftime()},
+is a tuple of 9 integers: year (e.g.\ 1993), month (1--12), day
+(1--31), hour (0--23), minute (0--59), second (0--59), weekday (0--6,
+monday is 0), Julian day (1--366) and daylight savings flag (-1, 0 or
+1). Note that unlike the \C{} structure, the month value is a range
+of 1-12, not 0-11. A year value will be handled as descibed under
+``Year 2000 (Y2K) issues'' above. A \code{-1} argument as daylight
+savings flag, passed to \function{mktime()} will usually result in the
+correct daylight savings state to be filled in.
\end{itemize}
The module defines the following functions and data items:
+\begin{datadesc}{accept2dyear}
+Boolean value indicating whether two-digit year values will be
+accepted. This is true by default, but will be set to false if the
+environment variable \envvar{PYTHONY2K} has been set to a non-empty
+string. It may also be modified at run time.
+\end{datadesc}
+
\begin{datadesc}{altzone}
The offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of the 0th
meridian, if one is defined. Negative if the local DST timezone is