[docs] [issue8822] datetime naive and aware types should have a well-defined definition that can be cross-referenced

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:17 PM, anatoly techtonik
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Does that mean that if aware `datetime` is converted to `date` and
> then back, the tzinfo information is lost and object implicitly
> becomes naive?

Yes, but one cannot convert "back" from date to datetime.  To get a
datetime object, one needs to combine date and time and tzinfo is
attached to the time component.

> In this case it should mentioned IMO.

I agree.  The following is not really intuitive:

-> None

In order to preserve tzinfo, one has to preserve it when extracting
the time component:

-> datetime.timezone.utc

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