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Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble)

From Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble)
Date 2015-07-01 16:36 +0000
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:15:38 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interestingly, when I tried this (pytz version 2015.4, Python 2.7.9,
> Debian Jessie), I saw utcoffset() showing (-1, 58020) for both. That
> seems... odd. And I can't fault your dates - those definitely ought to
> be easily inside and easily outside the DST boundaries. When I try
> those dates in an unrelated time converter, they do show seven- and
> eight- hour offsets to UTC. Maybe we're both misunderstanding the
> meaning of utcoffset()?

Here's a very simple demonstration that either something is wrong
or I don't understand how datetime and tzinfo are supposed to work:

$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55) 
>>> from pytz import timezone
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> pacific = timezone("US/Pacific")
>>> print(datetime(2014, 7, 7, 12, tzinfo=pacific))
2014-07-07 12:00:00-08:00
>>> print(datetime(2014, 1, 7, 12, tzinfo=pacific))
2014-01-07 12:00:00-08:00
>>> 

The "-08:00" is appropriate in the second (January) case, but the
first case is in July, and should have "-07:00".

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Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 00:56 +0000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-30 04:03 +0200
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 04:57 +0000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-30 12:11 +1000
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 04:49 +0000
      Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-30 17:01 +1000
        Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 16:42 +0000
          Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 02:55 +1000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-01 05:50 +0000
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 17:15 +1000
      Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-01 16:36 +0000
        Re: Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 10:55 -0600
          Re: Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-01 19:09 +0000
        Re: Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-02 03:08 +1000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-07-04 07:29 +0300
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble [SOLVED] Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-04 17:37 +0000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2015-07-09 19:50 +0000
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-10 16:15 +0000

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