Re: [Datetime-SIG] Allow numerical arguments for timezones
My guess is that the OP is parsing dates that have a numerical TZ offset (like most date formats found in internet protocols like http or email headers). But there's really no substitute for just calling datetime(....., tzinfo=timezone(timedelta(hours=......))) On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Alexander Belopolsky < alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Guido van Rossum
wrote: The reason that timezone() takes a timedelta is to avoid mistakes in the units.
That was more or less the original reasoning. Note that an early prototype required the offset to be specified in minutes. [1]
I don't expect people to have to construct timezone objects "by hand". You would normally get tzinfo populated with a local timezone by calling .astimezone() on a UTC instance:
from datetime import * dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc) print(dt.astimezone()) 2015-12-10 20:19:34.446688-05:00
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