[docs] strftime %S

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Nick,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Nick Merrill
<nicholas.e.merrill at gmail.com>wrote:

> [image: Inline image 1]
> strftime("%S") should be [0,59] , right? Thanks!
>

You don't say what version of the documentation you're reading but at the
most right column of that table for the '%S' directive there's a note:

    The range really is 0 to 61; according to the Posix standard this
accounts for leap seconds and the (very rare) double leap seconds. The time
module may produce and does accept leap seconds since it is based on the
Posix standard, but the datetime module does not accept leap seconds in
strptime() input nor will it produce them in strftime() output.

http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html?highlight=strftime#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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