> On 26 Oct 2017, at 17:45, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > This is a key point that I hope is obvious: > > If an ISO string has NO offset or timezone indicator, then a naive datetime > should be created. > > (I say, I "hope" it's obvious, because the numpy datetime64 implementation > initially (and for years) would apply the machine local timezone to a bare > iso string -- which was a f-ing nightmare!)
I hope the other obvious thing is that if there is a offset then a datetime that is *not* naive can be created as it describes an unambiguous point in time. We just cannot know what political timezone to choose. I'd guess that it should use the UTC timezone in that case. Barry
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