docs.python.org/3/library/dateโ€ฆ Changed in version 3.7: The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.Please reassure me that there is no place out there that uses fractions of a minute for their official time zone.

@clacke I think the worst real current timezone is 45 minutes off the hour...

But I've seen some arguing we should live our lives in local solar time and let the computers deal with making the scheduling between regions work.

I could imagine that the conversion from solar time to UTC needing to use offsets smaller than a minute.

@alienghic One minute on the clock at the equator is 15 nautical miles ~= 28 km ~= 17 English miles. I can see some argument for a local time closer to solar time, but I don't think I'd notice the sun's zenith being off compared to the other side of the city. =)

That said, clearly there is somebody out there that has enough use for this kind of precision to argue for the feature!
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@clacke @alienghic 'English Miles' ๐Ÿ’Œ

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@sullybiker @alienghic That's what they're called translated from Swedish, it didn't occur to me to call them anything else. =)

Apparently the formal term in English is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Intโ€ฆ .

@clacke @sullybiker I wonder if there were other miles in Swedish before adopting SI units

@alienghic @sullybiker I think people generally used quarter-ways in daily speech, which are a quarter of that mile. But these days with cars abound people use the 10 km mile all the time, it's the main way of talking about distance between cities. The road sign says "38 km" but you say "4 miles".

@lnxw48a1 @clacke I like it, it sounds quaint. ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Born and bred and I don't think I'd heard it. I thought 'statute' was the term. The link is really interesting. How these things evolve...

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