On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not entirely sure why we didn't add this to the stdlib ages ago.
>
>
> Maybe because tm_gmtoff was not added to time.struct_time until Python 3.3
> [1] and was not available from the most of the C libraries at the time?
>
> [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.struct_time
>

But (as my base class shows) implementing the required API using only the
tm_isdst flag and the timezone-related attributes of the time module
(tzname, timezone, altzone) a satisfactory implementation can be obtained,
and that API has been stable since the beginning of time. (Well, at least
since 1993: https://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/rev/6ee380349c84 .)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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