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It's not that curious, Georg Brandl is release manager for the 3.* releases, Benjamin Peterson is release manager for the 2.7.4 release and they live in different timezones.

The timezone doesn't determine which day of the week April 6th, 2013, falls on.

They probably tried calculating the day of the week using Python's truly painful timezone conversion tools. I'm not convinced it wouldn't tell you that a single date lay on both Saturday and Sunday.

I guess the Python 3 team is in South Africa, and the Python 2 team is on the East Coast...? ;)

It's not that curious. People make typos from time to time on the internet.