On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:37:47 +0200, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:59 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: > > I don't remember what that does to the time, and I have > > no intuition about it (I just want it to do the naive arithmetic!) > > But what is it that you expect?
"I just want it to do the naive arithmetic" > > So, would it be possible to take the timezone database support from > > pytz, and continue to implement naive-single-zone arithmetic the way Tim > > proposes, and have it automatically produce the correct UTC offset and > > UTC-offset-label afterward, without a normalize call? > > That depends on your definition of "correct". If I have a time X on date Y in timezone Z, it is either this UTC offset or that UTC offset, depending on what the politicians decided. Couple that with naive arithmetic, and I think you have something easily understandable from the end user perspective, and useful for a wide variety (but far from all) use cases. I'll stop now :) --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
