[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support.

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:23:37 +0100,
> Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> Changes in the ``datetime``-module
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>> A new ``is_dst`` parameter is added to several of the `tzinfo`
>> methods to handle time ambiguity during DST changeovers.
>>
>> * ``tzinfo.utcoffset(self, dt, is_dst=True)``
>>
>> * ``tzinfo.dst(self, dt, is_dst=True)``
>>
>> * ``tzinfo.tzname(self, dt, is_dst=True)``
>>
>> The ``is_dst`` parameter can be ``True`` (default), ``False``, or
>> ``None``.
>>
>> ``True`` will specify that the given datetime should be interpreted
>> as happening during daylight savings time, ie that the time specified
>> is before the change from DST.
>
> Why is it True by default? Do we have statistics showing that Python
> gets more use in summer?

My question exactly.

The rest sounds good -- definitely use the system tz database on Unixy
systems, pre-install on Windows and make updating easy. Some
bikeshedding about static I don't really understand, so I'll leave to
others.

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