As a little diversion from the PEP wars, let me ask the group if we can fix
this little wart: [1]
>>> from datetime import *
>>> t = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
>>> print(t)
2015-08-26 13:37:18.729831+00:00
>>> t.strftime("%F %T %Z%z")
'2015-08-26 13:37:18 UTC+00:00+0000'
The reason for such an odd result is that the "name" of timezone.utc was
defined as
>>> t.tzname()
'UTC+00:00'
I don't think there was any deep reason for this choice. We simply have
one common rule for forming the names of all fixed offset timezones that
don't have a name supplied in the constructor:
>>> print(timezone(-5*HOUR))
UTC-05:00
For technical reasons, we cannot give timezone.utc a name, but I think we
can change the rules for forming fixed offset timezone names so that zeros
are not printed and instead of
>>> print(timezone(0*HOUR))
UTC+00:00
we have
>>> print(timezone(0*HOUR))
UTC
[1]: http://bugs.python.org/issue22241
_______________________________________________
Datetime-SIG mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/datetime-sig
The PSF Code of Conduct applies to this mailing list:
https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
