[issue5094] datetime lacks concrete tzinfo impl. for UTC

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mark Dickinson <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Aren't there valid timezones that are offset by more than 12 hours from UTC?

I am not sure.   At this stage treat 12 as a placeholder for whatever
the relevant standard says.  I've seen suggestions that the range
should be (-24, 24) excluding ends
<http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/BasicDesign> and
[-14, 14] <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630289.aspx>.

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