[Python-Dev] TZ-aware local time

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 05, 2012, at 07:41 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

>The second feature has its uses.  If I want wake up at 7 AM every
>weekday, I don't want my alarm clock ask me whether I mean standard or
>daylight saving time, but if I attempt to set it to 1:30 AM on the day
>when 1:30 AM happens twice, I don't want it to go off twice or divine
>which 1:30 AM I had in mind.  I think stdlib should allow me to write
>a robust application that knows that some naive datetime objects
>correspond to two points in time and some correspond to none.

Really?  Why would naive datetimes know that?  I would expect that an aware
datetime would have that information but not naive ones.

-Barry
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