[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.619,1.620

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
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Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Reimplemented datetime.now() to be useful.


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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	22 Jan 2003 18:17:25 -0000	1.619
--- NEWS	23 Jan 2003 19:58:01 -0000	1.620
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*** 83,86 ****
--- 83,97 ----
    allows the highly motivated to emulate any scheme expressible in Python.
  
+   datetime.now():  The optional tzinfo argument was undocumented (that's
+   repaired), and its name was changed to tz ("tzinfo" is overloaded enough
+   already).  With a tz argument, now(tz) used to return the local date
+   and time, and attach tz to it, without any conversion of date and time
+   members.  This was less than useful.  Now now(tz) returns the current
+   date and time as local time in tz's time zone, akin to
+       tz.fromutc(datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=utc))
+   where "utc" is an instance of a tzinfo subclass modeling UTC.  Without
+   a tz argument, now() continues to return the current local date and time,
+   as a naive datetime object.
+ 
    The constructors building a datetime from a timestamp could raise
    ValueError if the platform C localtime()/gmtime() inserted "leap