On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Le Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:23:37 +0100, > Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Changes in the ``datetime``-module >> -------------------------------------- >> >> A new ``is_dst`` parameter is added to several of the `tzinfo` >> methods to handle time ambiguity during DST changeovers. >> >> * ``tzinfo.utcoffset(self, dt, is_dst=True)`` >> >> * ``tzinfo.dst(self, dt, is_dst=True)`` >> >> * ``tzinfo.tzname(self, dt, is_dst=True)`` >> >> The ``is_dst`` parameter can be ``True`` (default), ``False``, or >> ``None``. >> >> ``True`` will specify that the given datetime should be interpreted >> as happening during daylight savings time, ie that the time specified >> is before the change from DST. > > Why is it True by default? Do we have statistics showing that Python > gets more use in summer?
My question exactly. The rest sounds good -- definitely use the system tz database on Unixy systems, pre-install on Windows and make updating easy. Some bikeshedding about static I don't really understand, so I'll leave to others. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
