Alexandre Zani <alexandre.z...@gmail.com> added the comment:

I'm still reading through the issue you mentioned. (It's a painful read I have 
to admit) One major obstacle seems to be that during the DST switch over, an 
hour gets repeated and so the datetime object is ambiguous. (are you on the 
first or second hour?) I would argue that it isn't a problem that this function 
needs to solve. The ambiguity isn't tied to the conversion. It's tied to the 
datetime object itself.

Let's add an optional parameter to specify the DST status, doc the pitfall and 
not worry overmuch about it.

Side note: Let me know if I misunderstood Alexander, but if I didn't this 
should be documented with the datetime object. Based upon my understanding, the 
datetime object is a bad choice if you care about that ambiguity. That's not 
really clear.

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