On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Tim Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> +0. The base (tzinfo) class requires the datetime argument because, > in general, a zone's name depends on the datetime (like "is it in the > zone's "daylight" time"?). > I was thinking of returning the "zoneinfo" name such as America/New_York in this case. This would end the debate about what is the "proper" timezone name: if you know the date and time - you can get a specific EST/EDT abbreviation. If not - you'll just get whatever the zoneinfo calls itself.
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