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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-10-29 13:42:38 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-10-29 22:42:38 +0200
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bpo-45335: Add note to `sqlite3` docs about "timestamp" converter (GH-29200) (GH-29320)
(cherry picked from commit 3877fc02f7a8801ba5ce0e94b6075b3fdd9778d0) Co-authored-by: Ian Fisher <ian@iafisher.com>
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@@ -1062,6 +1062,12 @@ If a timestamp stored in SQLite has a fractional part longer than 6
numbers, its value will be truncated to microsecond precision by the
timestamp converter.
+.. note::
+
+ The default "timestamp" converter ignores UTC offsets in the database and
+ always returns a naive :class:`datetime.datetime` object. To preserve UTC
+ offsets in timestamps, either leave converters disabled, or register an
+ offset-aware converter with :func:`register_converter`.
.. _sqlite3-controlling-transactions: