Commit b607b031 authored by Sandro Tosi's avatar Sandro Tosi

Issue #14448: mention pytz; patch by Andrew Svetlov

parent 85edbd92
......@@ -1518,7 +1518,6 @@ Example :class:`tzinfo` classes:
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/tzinfo-examples.py
Note that there are unavoidable subtleties twice per year in a :class:`tzinfo`
subclass accounting for both standard and daylight time, at the DST transition
points. For concreteness, consider US Eastern (UTC -0500), where EDT begins the
......@@ -1558,6 +1557,15 @@ Applications that can't bear such ambiguities should avoid using hybrid
or any other fixed-offset :class:`tzinfo` subclass (such as a class representing
only EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)).
.. seealso::
`pytz <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/>`_
The Standard Library has no :class:`tzinfo` instances except for UTC, but
it exists a third-party library which brings Olson timezone database to
Python: `pytz`.
`pytz` contains up-to-date information and its usage is recommended.
.. _datetime-timezone:
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