[Python-checkins] r79184 - python/trunk/Doc/library/datetime.rst

georg.brandl python-checkins at python.org
Sun Mar 21 10:58:36 CET 2010


Author: georg.brandl
Date: Sun Mar 21 10:58:36 2010
New Revision: 79184

Log:
Update text for newest US DST regulation.  The sample file already has the calculation right.

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/library/datetime.rst

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/datetime.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/library/datetime.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/datetime.rst	Sun Mar 21 10:58:36 2010
@@ -1457,8 +1457,8 @@
 Note that there are unavoidable subtleties twice per year in a :class:`tzinfo`
 subclass accounting for both standard and daylight time, at the DST transition
 points.  For concreteness, consider US Eastern (UTC -0500), where EDT begins the
-minute after 1:59 (EST) on the first Sunday in April, and ends the minute after
-1:59 (EDT) on the last Sunday in October::
+minute after 1:59 (EST) on the second Sunday in March, and ends the minute after
+1:59 (EDT) on the first Sunday in November::
 
      UTC   3:MM  4:MM  5:MM  6:MM  7:MM  8:MM
      EST  22:MM 23:MM  0:MM  1:MM  2:MM  3:MM


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