[issue23574] datetime: support leap seconds

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor:

A leap second will be added in June 2015:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/08/computer-chaos-feares/21433363/

The datetime module explicitly doesn't support leap seconds:
https://docs.python.org/dev/library/datetime.html#datetime.date.fromtimestamp
"Note that on non-POSIX systems that include leap seconds in their notion of a timestamp, leap seconds are ignored by fromtimestamp()."

The following bug in oslo.utils was reported because datetime is indirectly used to unserialize a date, but it fails with ValueError("second must be in 0..59") if the second is 60:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.utils/+bug/1427212

Would it be possible to silently drop ignore leap seconds in datetime.datetime constructor, as already done in datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp?

Attached patch modified datetime constructor to drop leap seconds: replace second=60 with second=59. I also changed the error message for second (valid range is now 0..60).

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 237142
nosy: belopolsky, haypo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: datetime: support leap seconds
versions: Python 3.5

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