[Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> I guess I should remember, but what's the rationale for not including 
>> even a single concrete "tzinfo" implementation in the standard library?
>>
>> not even a UTC class?
>>
>> or am I missing something?
> 
> If you are asking for a time-zone database

I was more thinking of basic stuff like the UTC, FixedOffset and 
LocalTimezone classes from the library reference:

     http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-tzinfo.html

I just wrote a small RSS generator; it took more more time to sort out 
how to get strftime("%z") to print something meaningful than it took to 
write the rest of the code.

would anyone mind if I added the above classes to the datetime module ?

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