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Author	srittau
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, brett.cannon, catlee, erik.stephens, guettli, jribbens, lemburg, skip.montanaro, srittau, steve.roberts, tim.peters, tomster, vstinner
Date	2008-12-15.11:28:47
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Message-id	<1229340529.7.0.74229127499.issue1673409@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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A timedelta.toseconds method (or equivalent) makes no sense. The number of seconds in a day is not fixed (due to leap seconds) and relying on such a method would introduce subtle bugs. The only way to find out the number of seconds in a range of dates is if you have a concrete date range.

A timedelta.toseconds method (or equivalent) makes no sense. The number
of seconds in a day is not fixed (due to leap seconds) and relying on
such a method would introduce subtle bugs. The only way to find out the
number of seconds in a range of dates is if you have a concrete date range.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-12-15 11:28:50	srittau	set	recipients: + srittau, lemburg, tim.peters, skip.montanaro, brett.cannon, jribbens, guettli, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, catlee, vstinner, tomster, erik.stephens, steve.roberts
2008-12-15 11:28:49	srittau	set	messageid: <1229340529.7.0.74229127499.issue1673409@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-12-15 11:28:48	srittau	link	issue1673409 messages
2008-12-15 11:28:47	srittau	create