I'm getting this failure in test_email (Windows 64-bit build):

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ERROR: test_localtime_epoch_notz_daylight_false (test_utils.LocaltimeTests)                                          
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Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                   
  File "C:\Users\stefan\pydev\cpython\lib\test\test_email\test_utils.py", line 112, in test_localtime_epoch_notz_dayl
ight_false                                                                                                           
    t1 = utils.localtime(t0)                                                                                         
  File "C:\Users\stefan\pydev\cpython\lib\email\utils.py", line 397, in localtime                                    
    seconds = time.mktime(tm)                                                                                        
OverflowError: mktime argument out of range                                                                          
                                                                                                                     
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ERROR: test_localtime_epoch_notz_daylight_true (test_utils.LocaltimeTests)                                           
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Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                   
  File "C:\Users\stefan\pydev\cpython\lib\test\test_email\test_utils.py", line 105, in test_localtime_epoch_notz_dayl
ight_true                                                                                                            
    t1 = utils.localtime(t0)                                                                                         
  File "C:\Users\stefan\pydev\cpython\lib\email\utils.py", line 397, in localtime                                    
    seconds = time.mktime(tm)                                                                                        
OverflowError: mktime argument out of range

Same here with VS 2008.

I haven't touched localtime since pycon, so I presume this hasn't been detected before due to our lack of a windows 64bit buildbot.

I don't have a Win 64 setup, but I think replacing 1970 with say 1990 in the tests should fix the problem.

I am surprised that we don't see the same failure on 32-bit windows buildbot.  Windows mktime does not support negative time_t in either 32 or 64 bit version:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d1y53h2a(v=vs.110).aspx

We are probably just lucky and no Windows buildbot uses a TZ set ahead of UTC.   Stefan, what is your timezone?

What is happening here is that mktime() is called for 1970-01-01 00:00 which results in positive timestamp for the timezones west of Greenwich and negative timestamp east of Greenwich.  For example, using GNU date:

$ TZ=Europe/Paris date -d "1970-01-01 00:00" +%s
-3600

$ TZ=America/New_York date -d "1970-01-01 00:00" +%s
18000

I am adding Victor as an expert on pushing the limits of date/time functions.

My timezone is CET, so that fits your explanation. Indeed, the failure
also occurs on Windows 32-bit.

Is this something that has to be fixed during the freeze?  The fix is trivial: s/1970/1990/g, but I planned to revisit TZ-dependent tests during the beta period.  I think we don't use run_with_tz() enough.  It would also be great to make it work on windows.

New changeset 367e376e5ba2 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.3':
Close #15165: Fix test_email on Windows 64 bits
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/367e376e5ba2

New changeset 651e8613e579 by Victor Stinner in branch 'default':
(Merge 3.3) Close #15165: Fix test_email on Windows 64 bits
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/651e8613e579

This issue is not related to the email module, but it is a Windows limitation: datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1).timestamp() raises a same OverflowError.