Re: pytz and Python timezones

2016-06-12 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Johannes, On 06/11/2016 05:37 AM, Johannes Bauer wrote: > I try to create a localized timestamp > in the easiest possible way. So, intuitively, I did this: > > datetime.datetime(2016,1,1,0,0,0,tzinfo=pytz.timezone("Europe/Berlin")) That is indeed intuitive, but unfortunately (due to a misunde

Re: pytz and Python timezones

2016-06-12 Thread Lawrence D’Oliveiro
On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 11:37:38 PM UTC+12, Johannes Bauer wrote: > I try to create a localized timestamp in the easiest possible way. Localized timestamps are perhaps not as easy as you think. > So, intuitively, I did this: > > datetime.datetime(2016,1,1,0,0,0,tzinfo=pytz.timezone("Europe

Re: pytz and Python timezones

2016-06-11 Thread Irmen de Jong
On 11-6-2016 13:37, Johannes Bauer wrote: > Hi there, > > first off, let me admit that I have a hard time comprehensively wrapping > my head around timezones. Everything around them is much more > complicated than it seems, IMO. They might not seem complicated, but actually they are. Mindboggling