[Datetime-SIG] PEP-0500 (Alternative datetime arithmetic) Was: PEP 495 ... is ready ...

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> Regardless of the software involved, if I give you an ISO 8601 string
> "2015-03-07 12:00:00-0500" and ask you: What time will be 24 hours after
> that?  I bet your answer will be "2015-03-08 12:00:00-0500."  And I don't
> think you will appreciate being ridiculed for not knowing that the
> "correct" answer is  "2015-03-08 13:00:00-0400."
>

But that isn't, and can't be the "correct" answer.  ISO 8601 does not have
a way to encode timezones. So that string can only mean a particular time
in UTC. Unless there is a specification of the timezone somewhere else.

But this is about how to interpret ISO 8601 strings, so really a different
question anyway.

-Chris

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