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| From | Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> |
| Subject | Re: [Datetime-SIG] Are there any "correct" implementations of tzinfo? |
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| Comments | In-reply-to Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> message dated "Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:30:43 -0400." |
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In a message of Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:30:43 -0400, Random832 writes: >On Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 04:27, Laura Creighton wrote: >> I find this totally unacceptable. My conclusion was that hybrid tzinfo >> objects were a _really stupid idea_ proposed by somebody who >> misunderstood >> the problem, or rather only understood the most common case. > >"Hybrid tzinfo objects" _in isolation_ are not bad. The problem isn't >the objects themselves, it's the whole design: > >1. Hybrid tzinfo objects >2. Attached tzinfo object as the _only_ way to identify the timezone of >a datetime (no offset member) >3. Datetime itself stored in local time. Ah, thank you for explaining. I thought the only reason you would want a hybrid tzinfo number is that you absolutely did not want an offset number. Which is the part I found, ah, nutty. I see now that it doesn't have to be this way. Laura
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Re: [Datetime-SIG] Are there any "correct" implementations of tzinfo? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-14 18:59 +0200
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