[Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Issue #14448: mention pytz; patch by Andrew Svetlov

sandro.tosi python-checkins at python.org
Tue Apr 24 19:48:10 CEST 2012


http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3aec41794584
changeset:   76533:3aec41794584
branch:      3.2
parent:      76528:d1ba0421d65f
user:        Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi at gmail.com>
date:        Tue Apr 24 19:46:06 2012 +0200
summary:
  Issue #14448: mention pytz; patch by Andrew Svetlov

files:
  Doc/library/datetime.rst |  10 +++++++++-
  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1518,7 +1518,6 @@
 
 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/tzinfo-examples.py
 
-
 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
@@ -1558,6 +1557,15 @@
 or any other fixed-offset :class:`tzinfo` subclass (such as a class representing
 only EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)).
 
+.. seealso::
+
+   `pytz <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/>`_
+      The Standard Library has no :class:`tzinfo` instances except for UTC, but
+      it exists a third-party library which brings Olson timezone database to
+      Python: `pytz`.
+
+      `pytz` contains up-to-date information and its usage is recommended.
+
 
 .. _datetime-timezone:
 

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