[Python-Dev] Interop between datetime and mxDateTime (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:31:28 -0500

[Guido]

(Hm, I just found that utctimetuple() returns the same as timetuple() when the tzinfo is None

Yes. Also if d.tzinfo is not None but d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) returns 0 or None.

-- that doesn't seem right.)

Because ...? I'd rather get rid of utctimetuple(), supply a datetime.utc tzinfo subclass out of the box, and change the spelling of

d.utctimetuple()

to

d.timetuple(tzinfo=utc)

Similarly for datetime.now() vs datetime.utcnow(). The proliferation of ABCutcXYZ methods is confusing, especially since they return naive objects.

None of that helps make for a lowest common denonminator, though.