[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Chris Barker]

> The only other thing I found
> > really weird about datetime is how Python 2 had no implementation of
> > a UTC tzinfo class, despite this being utterly trivial -


Huh? it is either so trivial that there is no point -- simiply say that
your datetimes are UTC, and you are done.

Or it's not the least bit trivial -- the only difference between a UTC
datetime and a "naive" datetime is that one can be converted to (or
interact with) other time zones. Except that, as we know from this
conversation, is very, very non-trivial!

(Also, technically, UTC would use leap-seconds...)

-Chris

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