[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Bruce Leban]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> it is convenient to have a simple test for midnight.
>

Except this isn't it. That's only works for naive times. For aware times:

00:00:00+00:00 = midnight England = midnight UTC => False
00:00:00+01:00 = midnight France = 2300 UTC      => True
01:00:00+01:00 = 1 am France = midnight UTC      => False
19:00:00-05:00 = 1 am Boston = midnight UTC      => True

Code that relies that bool(time) is False for midnight is broken IMHO.

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