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From: Carl Meyer <carl@oddbird.net>
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Subject: Re: Missing something about timezones
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:12:24 -0600
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Hi Skip,

On 03/14/2016 09:32 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>> Why should it? You only asked pytz for the Chicago timezone. You
>> didn't ask for it relative to any specific time.
>=20
> Thanks. I thought using America/Chicago was supposed to automagically
> take into account transitions into and out of Daylight Savings. Is
> there some way to get that?

Yes, pytz can handle DST correctly automatically when you give it
'America/Chicago', but until you apply that timezone to a particular
datetime, there is no DST to handle. There is no implicit assumption of
"today" when you do `pytz.timezone('America/Chicago').

If you apply the timezone to a particular datetime, you'll see that it
does reflect DST correctly:

>>> import datetime, pytz
>>> tz =3D pytz.timezone('America/Chicago')
>>> tz
<DstTzInfo 'America/Chicago' LMT-1 day, 18:09:00 STD>
>>> import datetime
>>> dt =3D datetime.datetime.now()
>>> dtl =3D tz.localize(dt)
>>> dtl
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 14, 10, 11, 13, 514375, tzinfo=3D<DstTzInfo
'America/Chicago' CDT-1 day, 19:00:00 DST>)

Carl


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