On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Well, for example, the datetime module encourages you to use "aware" datetime objects (rather than so-called "naive" objects),
> but there isn't a single facility to do so. You must reinvent a whole timezone class from scratch.

This is partially addressed by issue 5094, "datetime lacks concrete
tzinfo impl. for UTC".  A more ambitious project would be to add pytz
to stdlib.  I believe I've seen this idea discussed and rejected, but
I am not able to find a link to an appropriate thread now.  A half-way
project would be to add LocalTimezone given as an example in
http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/datetime.html in addition for
UTC timezone.   Any takers?