Martin Pool <m...@sourcefrog.net> added the comment: Z is well established as meaning "UTC time" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Time_zones> so shouldn't be used for "zone not known." rfc 3393 is clear that it's equivalent to +00:00.
So the questions seem to be: * should there be an included battery to do this format at all? * should it represent utc as '+00:00' or as 'Z' by default - applications should have the choice. It's probably reasonable to assume correct Python application code using datetime objects will know whether they have a local, utc, or unknown time. The current patch does not seem to have any way to format an object with a declared UTC tzinfo as having a 'Z' prefix, which would be useful. ---------- nosy: +poolie _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7584> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
