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@@ -82,6 +82,17 @@ Extension modules creativity of political time zone fiddling appears unbounded -- fromutc() allows the highly motivated to emulate any scheme expressible in Python. + datetime.now(): The optional tzinfo argument was undocumented (that's + repaired), and its name was changed to tz ("tzinfo" is overloaded enough + already). With a tz argument, now(tz) used to return the local date + and time, and attach tz to it, without any conversion of date and time + members. This was less than useful. Now now(tz) returns the current + date and time as local time in tz's time zone, akin to + tz.fromutc(datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=utc)) + where "utc" is an instance of a tzinfo subclass modeling UTC. Without + a tz argument, now() continues to return the current local date and time, + as a naive datetime object. + The constructors building a datetime from a timestamp could raise ValueError if the platform C localtime()/gmtime() inserted "leap seconds". Leap seconds are ignored now. On such platforms, it's |