Reject UTC offsets TOML cannot write instead of emitting invalid output

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The bug

dumps() / item() render a datetime with isoformat(). When the tzinfo's offset has a seconds or microseconds component, isoformat() writes it (+00:00:30), but a TOML offset date-time is RFC 3339, whose offset is always HH:MM. The output is a document no TOML parser accepts, tomlkit's own included. With a fixed offset, so it depends on nothing but the library:

>>> import tomlkit, tomllib
>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
>>> s = tomlkit.dumps({"d": datetime(2020, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone(timedelta(seconds=30)))})
>>> s
'd = 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z:30\n'
>>> tomlkit.parse(s)
tomlkit.exceptions.InvalidNumberError: Invalid number at line 1 col 27
>>> tomllib.loads(s)
tomllib.TOMLDecodeError: Expected newline or end of document after a statement (at line 1, column 25)

(The Z:30 is the +00:00 → Z replacement firing on the first six characters of +00:00:30; an offset such as +01:00:30 comes through verbatim and is rejected the same way, as is one with microseconds, Z:00.000001.)

Where this comes from in practice: zoneinfo yields a zone's LMT offset for any date before its first standard-time transition, and LMT offsets are usually not whole minutes (Africa/Monrovia until 1972 at -00:44:30; most zones before about 1900; Europe/Amsterdam until 1937 at +00:19:32 on Debian/Ubuntu tzdata, which is built with backzone — upstream tzdata links Amsterdam to Brussels, so that particular example gives +00:00 there). Which zones and dates trigger it depends on the tzdata build; the fixed-offset case above does not.

A tz-aware time has the same problem in a simpler form: TOML local times carry no offset at all, yet item(time(1, 2, 3, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) renders 01:02:03+00:00.

The fix

Two small checks in the DateTime and Time constructors raise ValueError with a clear message instead of storing an unwritable raw string. Putting them in the constructors covers every path that builds a new item from a Python value: item(), dumps(), DateTime.astimezone() / replace(), Time.replace(). Parsed values are never affected, because the parser only ever produces whole-minute offsets and offset-free times.

Raising matches what tomli-w already does for offset times (ValueError: TOML does not support offset times); silently rounding or converting to UTC would change the value behind the caller's back. If you would rather normalise than refuse, say so and I will change it.

Tests

test_datetime_with_sub_minute_utc_offset_is_rejected and test_time_with_utc_offset_is_rejected in tests/test_items.py, covering item(), dumps(), the datetime-API paths, and that whole-minute offsets render exactly as before. Both fail on master and pass with the change; the full suite passes, ruff (pinned pre-commit version) and mypy are unchanged.

Found by property-testing tomllib.loads(tomlkit.dumps(d)) == d over generated dicts.

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