[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 09:11:05 CEST 2015


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Lennart Regebro]
>> If you don't have to deal with DST, then you don't have to have
>> tzinfo's in your date objects.
>
> There are no tzinfos on date objects.  I assume Ronald is talking
> about datetime objects.

Of course, I meant datetime objects.
In everything else, I stand by my original claim. If you want naive
datetime obejcts, you should use naive datetime objects.
My opinion is and remains that intentionally breaking datetime
arithmetic to make non-naive objects behave in a naive way was a
mistake.

//Lennart


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