the Gravity of Python 2

[Mark Lawrence]

On 09/01/2014 16:42, Nick Cash wrote:
>> and "%s" (which is incredibly useful) is not even documented (I suspect it's also not available on all platforms).
>
> The format specifiers available to Python are just whatever is available to the underlying c time.h.
> The manpage for strftime indicates that %s isn't part of the C standard, but part of "Olson's timezone package", which means it's not available on Windows. Your suspicion is unfortunately correct.
>

Methinks http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0431/ Time zone support 
improvements may be of interest here.  Still at draft issue unfortunately.

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Mark Lawrence