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authorPaul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>2021-10-19 14:09:41 -0400
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Add zoneinfo to the datetime documentation (GH-29038)
We should have done this way back when 3.9 was released, but it fell off the radar. Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <git@m.ganssle.io>
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Module :mod:`time`
Time access and conversions.
+ Module :mod:`zoneinfo`
+ Concrete time zones representing the IANA time zone database.
+
Package `dateutil <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_
Third-party library with expanded time zone and parsing support.
@@ -2174,14 +2177,13 @@ only EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)).
.. seealso::
- `dateutil.tz <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tz.html>`_
+ :mod:`zoneinfo`
The :mod:`datetime` module has a basic :class:`timezone` class (for
handling arbitrary fixed offsets from UTC) and its :attr:`timezone.utc`
attribute (a UTC timezone instance).
- *dateutil.tz* library brings the *IANA timezone database*
- (also known as the Olson database) to Python, and its usage is
- recommended.
+ ``zoneinfo`` brings the *IANA timezone database* (also known as the Olson
+ database) to Python, and its usage is recommended.
`IANA timezone database <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>`_
The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdata or zoneinfo) contains code