[New-bugs-announce] [issue7229] Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading

[Tomas Kubes]

New submission from Tomas Kubes <mr_napik at centrum.cz>:

Hello,

it is not obvious that the time.daylight data item reports nonzero
values even when DST is currently not being used (ie. in winter) but the
active timezone has DST defined for some other parts of the year.

Current manual entry can be misleadingly interpreted that time.daylight
acts as a current DST idicator (which it does not).

Suggested FIX: Add a sentence:
This value does not idicate that DST is currently active, but rather
describes that current timezone can have DST. Use localtime() dst flag
to determine if DST applies to the given time.


Tomas

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
messages: 94621
nosy: georg.brandl, napik
severity: normal
status: open
title: Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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