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 compression library.  bz2-compressed data is usually smaller than 
 corresponding \module{zlib}-compressed data. (Contributed by Gustavo Niemeyer.)
  
-\item A set of standard date/type types has been added in the new \module{datetime}
+\item A set of standard date/time types has been added in the new \module{datetime}
 module.  See the following section for more details.
 
 \item The Distutils \class{Extension} class now supports