July 20, 2010
10:46 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
I suggest the following wording for time.timezone description:
time.timezone: The number of seconds one must add to the local time to arrive at UTC.
Makes sense. I can't see any other real explanation for -7200 value if I am in +2 UTC timezone.
Similarly, tzinfo.utcoffset() can be defined as "Returns timedelta one must add to UTC to arrive at local time."
I believe the correct convention is "Return timedelta...". Another concern - if UTC is 0 reference point then there is no reason to add something to it - you just can say - "Return timedelta equal to local UTC offset."