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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients belopolsky, mark.dickinson, mcherm, rhettinger, stutzbach, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2010-06-04.20:21:59
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> The timedelta(seconds=0.6112295) example is handled correctly

No, it's not!  It's being rounded *up* where it should be being rounded *down*.

> because 0.6112295 sec is not half way between two nearest microseconds

Exactly.  The actual value stored by the C double is a little closer to 0.611229 than to 0.611230.
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2010-06-04 20:22:02mark.dickinsonsetrecipients: + mark.dickinson, tim.peters, mcherm, rhettinger, belopolsky, vstinner, stutzbach
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