On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Alexander Belopolsky < [email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > But that's not directly related to the proposal, is it? The proposal is to treat tz.tzname() the same as tz.tzname(None) -- not to give the former a different meaning. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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