On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Right. That's an independent proposal. I was mostly responding to Tim's comment.
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