[issue28602] `tzinfo.fromutc()` fails when used for a fold-aware tzinfo implementation

[Paul G]

Paul G added the comment:

Of the `tzinfo` implementations provided by `python-dateutil`, `tzrange`, `tzstr` (GNU TZ strings), `tzwin` (Windows style time zones) and `tzlocal` all satisfy this condition. These are basically all implementations of default system time zone information.

With current implementations `tzfile` and `tzical` also use the invariant algorithm, though theoretically there are edge cases where this will cause problems, and those should have their `fromutc()` adjusted.

In any case, I can't think of a single actual downside to this change - all it does is preserve the original behavior of `fromutc()`. As currently implemented, the algorithm is simply wrong when `dst()` is affected by `fold`, and this change would have no effect on zones where `dst()` is *not* affected by fold.

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