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@@ -27,9 +27,14 @@ Extension modules
microsecond <http://www.python.org/sf/661086>.
In dt.asdatetime(tz), if tz.utcoffset(dt) returns a duration,
- ValueError is raised of tz.dst(dt) returns None (2.3a1 treated it
+ ValueError is raised if tz.dst(dt) returns None (2.3a1 treated it
as 0 instead).
-
+
+ The tzinfo methods utcoffset() and dst() must return a timedelta object
+ (or None) now. In 2.3a1 they could also return an int or long, but that
+ was an unhelpfully redundant leftover from an earlier version wherein
+ they couldn't return a timedelta. TOOWTDI.
+
Library
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