Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, anatoly techtonik <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > .. Another > concern - if UTC is 0 reference point then there is no reason to add > something to it - you just can say - "Return timedelta equal to local > UTC offset." No, UTC is not a 0 reference point, it is a time scale. UTC offset is the value that is used to translate between time expressed in UTC and local time. To make an analogy, expressing time in UTC is like expressing temperature in Kelvin scale. You need to subtract 273 from the value in ºK to arrive at the value in ºC. Documenting utcoffset() as "Return timedelta equal to local UTC offset." is almost circular. It does not explain whether it has to be added or subtracted from UTC to arrive at local time. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9305> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
