* Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-10 03:58:27 +0100]: > >From the README.txt > pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows > accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.3 > or higher. It also solves the issue of ambiguous times at the end > of daylight savings, which you can read more about in the Python > Library Reference (datetime.tzinfo). Amost all (over 540) of the Olson > timezones are supported.
Unfortunately, it would appear that the Olson tz database contains some
rather... uh... confusing data. For example:
>>> pytz.timezone('Africa/Johannesburg')
<DstTzInfo 'Africa/Johannesburg' SAST+1:30:00 STD>
# SAST is UTC+2 not UTC+1.5
>>> pytz.timezone('Etc/GMT+2')._utcoffset
datetime.timedelta(-1, 79200)
# I thought I asked for GMT+2, not GMT-2
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