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: ...@@ -1518,7 +1518,6 @@ Example :class:`tzinfo` classes:
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/tzinfo-examples.py .. literalinclude:: ../includes/tzinfo-examples.py
Note that there are unavoidable subtleties twice per year in a :class:`tzinfo` 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 subclass accounting for both standard and daylight time, at the DST transition
points. For concreteness, consider US Eastern (UTC -0500), where EDT begins the 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 ...@@ -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 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)). 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: .. _datetime-timezone:
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