[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> There really is a reason every other date time implementation I know
> of uses UTC internally, and there really is a reason why everyone
> always recommends storing date times in UTC with the time zone or
> offset separately.
>

Current datetime design does not prevent your application from storing
date-times
in UTC.  You can store them in naive datetime instances, but the
recommended
approach is to use datetime instances with tzinfo=timezone.utc.
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