[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Lennart Regebro]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bikeshed: Would arithmetic be based on UTC time or Unix time? It'd be
> more logical to describe it as "adding six hours means adding six
> hours to the UTC time", but it'd look extremely odd when there's a
> leap second.

It would ignore leap seconds. If you want to call that unix time or
not is a matter of opinion. Hm. I guess the internal representation
*could* be EPOCH + offset, and local times could be calculated
properties, which could be cached (or possibly calculated at
creation).

//Lennart