Thank you for your reply, although is not helpful for me.

I use strptime() for datedate transformation and datatime boundaries
checking
and therefore I am not conserned in Reltivity theory.

When someone in datetime table enter 02:61:38 it is sign for me to
rise a warning and not to supposed that the gay is astrophysicist :)

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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Facundo Batista <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Facundo Batista <facundo@taniquetil.com.ar> added the comment:
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> Minutes with 61 (0..60) and 62 (0..61) seconds are used to adjust the
> theoretical calendar because of small differences with real world
> rotation...
>
> Are you aware of any case where a minute with 63 seconds (0..62) should
> be used?
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