[Zope3-dev] Timezones

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Thu Sep 8 10:16:48 EDT 2005


On Thursday 08 September 2005 09:46, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> I'm seeing lots of discussion about timezone handling, but I'm afraid I
> haven't quite grasped the problem, and why an additional module pytz is
> needed in addition to the standard datetime, if everyone uses UTC? Is
> standard python datetime buggy?

People might enter timezoned datetimes and we also want to output timezoned 
datetimes. That's what pytz is used for.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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