pytz and Python timezones

[Johannes Bauer]

Hi there,

first off, let me admit that I have a hard time comprehensively wrapping
my head around timezones. Everything around them is much more
complicated than it seems, IMO. That said, I'm trying to do things the
"right" way and stumbled upon some weird issue which I can't explain.
I'm unsure what is happening here. I try to create a localized timestamp
in the easiest possible way. So, intuitively, I did this:

datetime.datetime(2016,1,1,0,0,0,tzinfo=pytz.timezone("Europe/Berlin"))

Which gives me:

datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Berlin'
LMT+0:53:00 STD>)

Uuuuuh... what?

This here:

pytz.timezone("Europe/Berlin").localize(datetime.datetime(2016,1,1))

Gives me the expected result of:

datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Berlin'
CET+1:00:00 STD>)

Can someone explain what's going on here and why I end up with the weird
"00:53" timezone? Is this a bug or am I doing things wrong?

Thanks,
Cheers,
Johannes

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