OK, I guess we can change stdlib datetime.timezone.utc's str() to 'UTC'. Make sure to update both the C and the Python version, and the tests, and the docs. It's going to have to go into 3.6.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Alexander Belopolsky < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Why is this needed? When would a real app use %Z%z? > > > Given that a bug report [1] exists, someone was tripped by the current > behavior. It is my understanding that "UTC" is one of the few timezone > abbreviations that we recognize in strptime and the users expect strptime > to be able to parse whatever strftime produces. > > > [1]: http://bugs.python.org/issue22241 > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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