diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 401a647783e..27197b8fc31 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1557,7 +1557,6 @@ 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 @@ -1597,6 +1596,15 @@ 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 `_ + 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: