[Datetime-SIG] The BDFL's take

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Łukasz Rekucki <lrekucki at gmail.com> wrote:
> The cheat here is that you call "astimezone()" without arguments, thus
> it will *always* convert to UTC and back internally (even if your OS
> timezone did not change a single bit).

This is not a "cheat." This is a documented and the recommended way to
accomplish this task.

> If you pass TZ explicitly, it  doesn't work.

Sure and there are an infinite number of other ways to make a mistake
in date/time calculations.