Missing something about timezones

[Ian Kelly]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this correct (today, with Daylight Savings in effect)?
>
>>>> import pytz
>>>> i.timezone
> 'America/Chicago'
>>>> pytz.timezone(i.timezone)
> <DstTzInfo 'America/Chicago' CST-1 day, 18:00:00 STD>
>>>> ot
> datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 14, 9, 30, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo
> 'America/New_York' EDT-1 day, 20:00:00 DST>)
>>>> ot.tzinfo
> <DstTzInfo 'America/New_York' EDT-1 day, 20:00:00 DST>
>
> Shouldn't the America/Chicago timezone reflect DST?

Why should it? You only asked pytz for the Chicago timezone. You
didn't ask for it relative to any specific time.