[Python-Dev] TZ-aware local time

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Changing subject to reflect a change of topic.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> .. Although if we ever get that "local time" tzinfo
> object, we may regret it. So I propose to launch without it and see if
> people object. There simply isn't a way to roundtrip for times that
> fall in the DST->std transition, and I doubt that many users will want
> to think about it (they'd have to store an extra bit with all their
> datetime objects -- it would be better to get them to use tzinfo
> objects instead...).

I've also been arguing against "local time" tzinfo and my proposal was
to create a function that would produce TZ-aware local time with
tzinfo bound to a fixed-offset timezone.  In New York that would mean
EDT in the summer and EST in the winter.   This is what Unix date
utility does.

See http://bugs.python.org/issue9527 .