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Author	vstinner
Recipients	belopolsky, hollec, jjlee, python-dev, vstinner
Date	2011-03-21.02:04:20
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Message-id	<1300673061.67.0.296930716396.issue5537@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> While it is unlikely that a purely numeric format such as "%Y-%m-%d > %H:%M:%S" will be locale dependent, it is possible that some pre-C99 > systems would format dates using exotic digits is some locales. Ok, I rewrote my patch to avoid strftime(). It should now be fixed. FYI datetime.fromtimestamp() converts the timestamp to a double, which has a precision of 53 bits (no precision loss for year < 285,422,890 and so it's enough for year 2038).

> While it is unlikely that a purely numeric format such as "%Y-%m-%d
> %H:%M:%S" will be locale dependent, it is possible that some pre-C99
> systems would format dates using exotic digits is some locales.

Ok, I rewrote my patch to avoid strftime(). It should now be fixed.

FYI datetime.fromtimestamp() converts the timestamp to a double, which has a precision of 53 bits (no precision loss for year < 285,422,890 and so it's enough for year 2038).

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Date	User	Action	Args
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2011-03-21 02:04:21	vstinner	set	messageid: <1300673061.67.0.296930716396.issue5537@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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