[Datetime-SIG] A local timezone class

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> ..
>> So, again, why have we been shy of adding this to the stdlib? We did
>> (eventually) add the fixed offset classes.
>>
>
> I may be wrong, but I thought it was due to unresolvable DST fold issues
> that are mooted by PEP 495.  (At least that was the reason I did not push
> for LocalTimezone as hard as I did for the fixed offset class.)
>

See <http://bugs.python.org/issue5094#msg107072>.
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