[issue5094] datetime lacks concrete tzinfo impl. for UTC

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Brett Cannon <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> 1. Call it FixedTimezone or something (remember it has to be CapWords).

I thought consistency within module trumps PEP 8 naming standards.
The datetime module (for better or worse) uses lowercase names for its
types: date, time, datetime, tzinfo.  Shouldn't the new type follow
the suit? (This will also avoid a source of typos TimeZone vs.
TimeZone).

I don't like "fixed timezone" - it is not clear what it is fixed:
offset, geographical location or historical set of rules.  I think we
should promote the notion that timezone is just an offset.  EST is -5
hours, EDT is -4.  New York uses EST in winter and EDT in summer.   A
zoneinfo database (external to python) is a mapping from place and
time to timezone.

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