[Datetime-SIG] [Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:04 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> What *I* want aware datetimes to do is give me the correct timezone
> label when I format them, given the date and time information they hold.
> The naive arithmetic is perfect, the conversion between timezones is
> fine, the only thing missing from my point of view is a timezone
> database such that if I tell a datetime it is in zone X, it will print
> the correct offset and/or timezone label when I format it as a string.

+1

See https://mail.python.org/pipermail/datetime-sig/2015-July/000071.html
for an essentially the same use case.

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