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> and "%s" (which is incredibly useful) is not even documented (I suspect i=
t's also not available on all platforms).

The format specifiers available to Python are just whatever is available to=
 the underlying c time.h.=20
The manpage for strftime indicates that %s isn't part of the C standard, bu=
t part of "Olson's timezone package", which means it's not available on Win=
dows. Your suspicion is unfortunately correct.