Re: How to look up historical time zones by date and location

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Date	2014-08-18 20:56 +0200
Subject	Re: How to look up historical time zones by date and location
From	Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On 18 August 2014 20:03 "Ian Kelly" <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also don't know why pytz shows the LMT offset in the repr for those
> timezones instead of the current UTC offset.

If pytz objects do not have a datetime object attached, they default to the
first ever entry, which is usually LMT. This can be problematic, as there
are ways to attach a ~100 years ago time zone object to a 2014 date.

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Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/>
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Re: How to look up historical time zones by date and location Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2014-08-18 20:56 +0200

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