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jobermark
jobermark

Reputation: 258

Behavior of pytz timezones is inconsistent

If I construct a Python date, and then place it in a pytz timezone, it behaves as expected.

x = datetime.datetime(2015,1,1,10)
z = pytz.timezone('America/Chicago')
z.localize(x)
datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 1, 10, 0, tzinfo=< DstTzInfo 'America/Chicago' CST-1 day, 18:00:00 STD >)

If I construct a Python date using a pytz timezone as a parameter, it does not, it is (presumably) a 'sun' time with an offset for the cities distance from the time zone border.

datetime.datetime(2015,1,1,10,tzinfo=tz)
datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 1, 10, 0, tzinfo=< DstTzInfo 'America/Chicago' LMT-1 day, 18:09:00 STD >)

Is there something I can do to the date or to the timezone itself so that it behaves the same in both contexts?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 344

Answers (1)

mementum
mementum

Reputation: 3203

The answer is directly in the pytz docs:

Unfortunately using the tzinfo argument of the standard datetime constructors ‘’does not work’’ with pytz for many timezones.

Unless:

It is safe for timezones without daylight saving transitions though, such as UTC

Which is not your case

See: http://pythonhosted.org/pytz/

Upvotes: 2

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