[Python-Dev] datetime +/- scalars (int, long, float)? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 05 Mar 2002 15:30:37 -0500

Am I misunderstanding something, or is your "naive time" simply local time without the knowledge of DST or time zone ?

Exactly.

If so, you have an excellent solution that works 99.97% of the time. Unfortunately, once you have removed the one bit of DST information, it's not always possible to get it back, without knowing which 2:30 Sunday morning...

Exactly. And I don't care. In fact, I would go further, and claim that not caring about this is the whole point. If you had cared about this, you would have saved UTC timestamps.

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