[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support. (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Dec 11 17:07:55 CET 2012

Le Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:23:37 +0100, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> a écrit :

Changes in the datetime-module -------------------------------------- A new isdst parameter is added to several of the tzinfo methods to handle time ambiguity during DST changeovers. * tzinfo.utcoffset(self, dt, isdst=True) * tzinfo.dst(self, dt, isdst=True) * tzinfo.tzname(self, dt, isdst=True) The isdst parameter can be True (default), False, or None. True will specify that the given datetime should be interpreted as happening during daylight savings time, ie that the time specified is before the change from DST.

Why is it True by default? Do we have statistics showing that Python gets more use in summer?

Regards

Antoine.

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