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  r81555 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-05-26 15:43:16 -0400 (Wed, 26 May 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7879: Do not test negative timestamps on any Windows platform
  including Windows CE.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
index f65fbca..0159be0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 See http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/TestCases
 """
 
-import os
+import sys
 import pickle
 import unittest
 
@@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@
 
     def test_negative_float_fromtimestamp(self):
         # Windows doesn't accept negative timestamps
-        if os.name == "nt":
+        if sys.platform == "win32":
             return
         # The result is tz-dependent; at least test that this doesn't
         # fail (like it did before bug 1646728 was fixed).
@@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@
 
     def test_negative_float_utcfromtimestamp(self):
         # Windows doesn't accept negative timestamps
-        if os.name == "nt":
+        if sys.platform == "win32":
             return
         d = self.theclass.utcfromtimestamp(-1.05)
         self.assertEquals(d, self.theclass(1969, 12, 31, 23, 59, 58, 950000))