[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Isaac Schwabacher]

On 15-04-09, Alexander Belopolsky  wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Isaac Schwabacher <ischwabacher at wisc.edu(javascript:main.compose()> wrote:
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> > > No, it does not. Please read the documentation: "self must be aware (self.tzinfo must not be None, and self.utcoffset() must not return None)."
> > 
> > Whoops, you're right. But that's even worse-- it doesn't give you a way to convert a naive datetime at all. Currently the only way from "2013-11-03 01:30:00" to "2013-11-03 01:30:00-0500 America/Chicago" is still datetime.replace().
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> 
> Well, you are right, but at least we do have a localtime utility hidden in the email package:
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> >>> from datetime import *
> >>> from email.utils import localtime
> >>> print(localtime(datetime.now()))
> 2015-04-09 15:19:12.840000-04:00
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> 
> You can read <http://bugs.python.org/issue9527> for the reasons it did not make into datetime.

But that's restricted to the system time zone. Nothing good ever comes from the system time zone...

ijs