ISO with timezone

[Ben Finney]

"Nicholas F. Fabry" <nick.fabry at coredump.us> writes:

> The constructor for class datetime has a method, .now() that returns
> the current date and time, as a naive datetime object (i.e. no
> tzinfo attached).

It's not "the constructor for class 'datetime'" that has that method;
rather, the class 'datetime' has that method.

(If anything is "the constructor for class 'datetime'", it's the
'__new__' method -- or, some might argue, the '__init__' method -- and
that doesn't fit what you say above.)

> Dates and Times are a bit ugly in Python. Don't be discouraged, but
> you do need to understand them quite well to get bug-free code that
> plays with them.

This is unfortunately true. Native datetime support is improving, but
slowly.

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