From e1560313d4d9bff8eba0f851ef325f7ee19f7ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:42:38 -0700 Subject: bpo-45335: Add note to `sqlite3` docs about "timestamp" converter (GH-29200) (GH-29320) (cherry picked from commit 3877fc02f7a8801ba5ce0e94b6075b3fdd9778d0) Co-authored-by: Ian Fisher --- Doc/library/sqlite3.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst index b9436daaeb..b24a2f0985 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst @@ -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: -- cgit v1.2.1