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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-01-01 21:51:37 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-01-01 21:51:37 (GMT)
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A quicker astimezone() implementation, rehabilitating an earlier
suggestion from Guido, along with a formal correctness proof of the trickiest bit. The intricacy of the proof reveals how delicate this is, but also how robust the conclusion: correctness doesn't rely on dst() returning +- one hour (not all real time zones do!), it only relies on: 1. That dst() returns a (any) non-zero value if and only if daylight time is in effect. and 2. That the tzinfo subclass implements a consistent notion of time zone. The meaning of "consistent" was a hidden assumption, which is now an explicit requirement in the docs. Alas, it's an unverifiable (by the datetime implementation) requirement, but so it goes.
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