Joe Peterson <j...@skyrush.com> added the comment:
[just carrying over some info from issue 10939 that is related to this issue]
Here is another manifestation of this issue, related to the local time
assumption, but not to DST, per se:
Here is the definition for Europe/London in the unix tz data:
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00s
0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27
1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u
0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996
0:00 EU GMT/BST
So London's local time was always 1 hour ahead of UTC (BST time) from 1968 Oct
27 until 1971 Oct 31 2:00u.
Because of this, Internaldate2tuple() returns the wrong local time (00:00
rather than [the correct] 01:00) in its tuple when input is "01-Jan-1970
00:00:00 +0000" (the epoch).
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