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Oh god, I didn't realize that about Python and the POSIX spec. Cautiously, I'm going to guess that GPS seconds are one of the few reliable ways to uniformly convey a monotonically-increasing time reference.
Ok, this is just a plainly bad decision then and now by the datetime library people. What possible reason could have existed to produce a TZ-naive object from a library call that only returns a reference to UTC?
You also have CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which could or could not be the number of seconds since last reboot.
To be honest, this mess was directly inherited from POSIX C system calls.