The utter mess of current timezone definitions (was: Comparing offset-aware and offset-naive datetimes?)

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.1102.1359264325.2939.python-list at python.org>,
 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> 
> > but I happen to know its offset is 0 (i.e. GMT).
> 
> As further fuel for your hatred: GMT is not the same thing as UTC+0, and
> never has been. (See the definitions of those two separate timezones for
> more; Wikipedia's articles are probably a good start.)

Yes, I am aware of the difference between GMT and UTC (and UT0, UT1, 
etc).  None of which really matters for my purpose.  In this case, it 
just so happens that the original string is:

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:10:34 GMT

so if anybody is conflating GMT and UTC, it's the dateutil parser :-)