Closed further-reading closed 3 years ago
I'm trying to have a script that works with local time in Ireland but it seems that when you set a datetime object to Europe/Dublin and convert to UTC it adds 25 minutes and doesn't offset during DST.
>>> import datetime, pytz >>> test = datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 1, 8, tzinfo=pytz.timezone('Europe/Dublin')) >>> test.astimezone(pytz.timezone('UTC')).time() datetime.time(8, 25) >>> testDST = datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 30, 8, tzinfo=pytz.timezone('Europe/Dublin')) >>> testDST.astimezone(pytz.timezone('UTC')).time() datetime.time(8, 25)
It appears that it might be using Dublin Mean Time, which has been defunct since 1916.
Interestingly, this does not happen when going from UTC to Europe/Dublin.
>>> import datetime, pytz >>> test = datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 1, 8, tzinfo=pytz.timezone('UTC')) >>> test.astimezone(pytz.timezone('Europe/Dublin')).time() datetime.time(8, 0) >>> testDST = datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 30, 8, tzinfo=pytz.timezone('UTC')) >>> testDST.astimezone(pytz.timezone('Europe/Dublin')).time() datetime.time(9, 0)
I realized that this is actually a fork and the real repo is at https://github.com/stub42/pytz
I'm trying to have a script that works with local time in Ireland but it seems that when you set a datetime object to Europe/Dublin and convert to UTC it adds 25 minutes and doesn't offset during DST.
It appears that it might be using Dublin Mean Time, which has been defunct since 1916.
Interestingly, this does not happen when going from UTC to Europe/Dublin.