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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	ajaksu2, belopolsky, brett.cannon, doerwalter, eric.araujo, ggenellina, kawai, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rafe, vstinner
Date	2010-06-03.19:41:17
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Message-id	<AANLkTim0ksjD71bZDANdWxVAHyetQUQ48FBVqc67lse3@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to	<1275592754.62.0.279269665035.issue5094@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > Aren't there valid timezones that are offset by more than 12 hours from UTC? I am not sure. At this stage treat 12 as a placeholder for whatever the relevant standard says. I've seen suggestions that the range should be (-24, 24) excluding ends <http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/BasicDesign> and [-14, 14] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630289.aspx>.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Aren't there valid timezones that are offset by more than 12 hours from UTC?

I am not sure.   At this stage treat 12 as a placeholder for whatever
the relevant standard says.  I've seen suggestions that the range
should be (-24, 24) excluding ends
<http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/BasicDesign> and
[-14, 14] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630289.aspx>.

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2010-06-03 19:41:21	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, doerwalter, brett.cannon, mark.dickinson, ggenellina, pitrou, vstinner, ajaksu2, kawai, eric.araujo, rafe
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2010-06-03 19:41:17	belopolsky	create