[New-bugs-announce] [issue46027] email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime() handling of -0000 offset

[Fred Drake]

New submission from Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com>:

A local time offset of '-0000' is not handled the same way as an offset of '+0000', but I'd expect it would be:

>>> import email.utils
>>> 
>>> email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime('9 Dec 2021 08:52:04 -0000')
datetime.datetime(2021, 12, 9, 8, 52, 4)
>>> email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime('9 Dec 2021 08:52:04 +0000')
datetime.datetime(2021, 12, 9, 8, 52, 4, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)

I observe the same behavior on Python 3.9.9 and 3.10.1.

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components: email
messages: 408149
nosy: barry, fdrake, r.david.murray
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime() handling of -0000 offset
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.9

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