Comment 2 for bug 390947

You are correct, sir! The program runs fine under linux, coughs up the
error in Windows XP. Just one more reason to use Linux.

John

Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> The exception is a limitation of your operating system — when PyEphem
> asks it to convert the given UTC date and time into a local date and
> time, it finds the date too far in the past or future to represent under
> your operating system, and gives up.
>
> Strictly speaking, of course, asking about the "local time" of an event
> too far in the past is meaningless, because time zones didn't exist
> until recently, and before that there was no strict definition of your
> location's "local time" to use. :-) But you're probably doing early-
> twentieth-century calculations to which such a complaint doesn't apply:
> time zones certainly existed then, your computer operating system just
> can't think about times that long ago.
>
> I'll look around at the available time libraries for Python, and at
> least add to the docs a discussion of how to use one of them to do this
> calculation.
>
> ** Changed in: pyephem
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Changed in: pyephem
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: pyephem
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brandon Craig Rhodes (brandon-rhodes)
>
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