[Datetime-SIG] Making dt parameter of timezone.tzname(dt) optional

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +0.  The base (tzinfo) class requires the datetime argument because,
>> in general, a zone's name depends on the datetime (like "is it in the
>> zone's "daylight" time"?).
>>
>
> I was thinking of returning the "zoneinfo" name such as America/New_York
> in this case.  This would end the debate about what is the "proper"
> timezone name: if you know the date and time - you can get a specific
> EST/EDT abbreviation.  If not - you'll just get whatever the zoneinfo calls
> itself.
>

But that's not directly related to the proposal, is it? The proposal is to
treat tz.tzname() the same as tz.tzname(None) -- not to give the former a
different meaning.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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