[Numpy-discussion] Dates and times and Datetime64 (again)

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Sankarshan Mudkavi
<smudkavi at uwaterloo.ca>wrote:

> A naive datetime64 would be unable to handle this, and would either have
> to ignore the tzinfo or would have to throw up an exception.


This is not true.  Python's own datetime has no problem handling this:

>>> t1 = datetime(2000,1,1,12)
>>> t2 = datetime(2000,1,1,12,tzinfo=timezone.utc)
>>> print(t1)
2000-01-01 12:00:00
>>> print(t2)
2000-01-01 12:00:00+00:00
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