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11.20.3 DateTime Objects

This class may initialized from date in seconds since the epoch, a time tuple, or an ISO 8601 time/date string. It has the following methods, supported mainly for internal use by the marshalling/unmarshalling code:

`decode`( | string)

  Accept a string as the instance's new time value.

`encode`( | out)

  Write the XML-RPC encoding of this DateTime item to the out stream object.

It also supports certain of Python's built-in operators through `_cmp__` and `__repr__` methods.