[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Isaac Schwabacher <ischwabacher at wisc.edu>
wrote:

> > No, it does not. Please read the documentation: "self must be aware
> (self.tzinfo must not be None, and self.utcoffset() must not return None)."
>
> Whoops, you're right. But that's even worse-- it doesn't give you a way to
> convert a naive datetime at all. Currently the only way from "2013-11-03
> 01:30:00" to "2013-11-03 01:30:00-0500 America/Chicago" is still
> datetime.replace().


Well, you are right, but at least we do have a localtime utility hidden in
the email package:

>>> from datetime import *
>>> from email.utils import localtime
>>> print(localtime(datetime.now()))
2015-04-09 15:19:12.840000-04:00

You can read <http://bugs.python.org/issue9527> for the reasons it did not
make into datetime.
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