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Re:Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python by scott_w on Sunday April 13, 2025 @10:07AM (#43672915)
Given the list of issues (most of which I had never heard of) that the library author describes with datetime, I think I trust his tests over the ones I’d write.

Given how many tests I see fail on 29th February at the companies I’ve been at, I don’t trust my colleagues’ tests either!

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Re:Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python by brookst on Sunday April 13, 2025 @10:19AM (#43673000)
In a previous job where we had complete hell with an internal datetime lib under ambiguous ownership, a colleague joked that the original authors had taken early retirement when they turned 2,147,483,647 years old.
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