[Datetime-SIG] PEP 495 (Local Time Disambiguation) is ready for pronouncement

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 05:27:37 CEST 2015


[Ethan Furman]
>> Correction to PEP:
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>> [about halfway down]
>> The value returned by dt.timestamp() given a missing dt will be the larger
>> of the two "nice to know" values if dt.first  == True and the larger
>> otherwise.
>>
>> Presumably the first "larger" should be "smaller".

[Alexander]
> No.  The rule for the missing time is the opposite to that for the
> ambiguous time.
> This allows a program that probes the TZ database by calling timestamp with
> two different values of the "first" flag to avoid any additional calls
> to differentiate between the gap and the fold.

Did you note that the original quote uses "larger" twice?

    will be the larger of the two if ... and the larger otherwise
                   ^^^^^^                                  ^^^^^^

_One_ of them should surely say "smaller" instead ;-)  Although I'd
use "earlier" and "later".


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