<p>Defaulting to UTC is not a good idea, which is why relevant methods take an argument to specify whether to be UTC (exact details are in the patch; don't remember exact details).</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 16, 2010 4:07 PM, "Greg Ewing" <<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">Brett Cannon wrote:<br>
<br>> Issue 5094 already has a patch that is nearly complete to provide a<br>> default...</font></p>
Are you sure it's really a good idea to default to UTC?<br>
I thought it was considered a feature that datetime<br>
objects are naive unless you explicitly specify a<br>
timezone.<br>
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