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pythongh-85453: Fix 'timezone' vs. 'time zone' spelling issues in datetime.rst (python#118449)
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Date and time objects may be categorized as "aware" or "naive" depending on
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whether or not they include timezone information.
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whether or not they include time zone information.
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With sufficient knowledge of applicable algorithmic and political time
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adjustments, such as time zone and daylight saving time information,
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A **naive** object does not contain enough information to unambiguously locate
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itself relative to other date/time objects. Whether a naive object represents
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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), local time, or time in some other timezone is
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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), local time, or time in some other time zone is
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purely up to the program, just like it is up to the program whether a
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particular number represents metres, miles, or mass. Naive objects are easy to
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understand and to work with, at the cost of ignoring some aspects of reality.
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time, the time zone name, and whether daylight saving time is in effect.
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Only one concrete :class:`tzinfo` class, the :class:`timezone` class, is
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supplied by the :mod:`!datetime` module. The :class:`timezone` class can
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represent simple timezones with fixed offsets from UTC, such as UTC itself or
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North American EST and EDT timezones. Supporting timezones at deeper levels of
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supplied by the :mod:`!datetime` module. The :class:`!timezone` class can
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represent simple time zones with fixed offsets from UTC, such as UTC itself or
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North American EST and EDT time zones. Supporting time zones at deeper levels of
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detail is up to the application. The rules for time adjustment across the
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world are more political than rational, change frequently, and there is no
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.. attribute:: UTC
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Alias for the UTC timezone singleton :attr:`datetime.timezone.utc`.
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Alias for the UTC time zone singleton :attr:`datetime.timezone.utc`.
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.. versionadded:: 3.11
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.. classmethod:: datetime.today()
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Return the current local datetime, with :attr:`.tzinfo` ``None``.
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Return the current local date and time, with :attr:`.tzinfo` ``None``.
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Equivalent to::
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Return a :class:`.datetime` corresponding to *date_string*, parsed according to
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*format*.
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If *format* does not contain microseconds or timezone information, this is equivalent to::
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If *format* does not contain microseconds or time zone information, this is equivalent to::
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datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))
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If provided, *tz* must be an instance of a :class:`tzinfo` subclass, and its
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:meth:`utcoffset` and :meth:`dst` methods must not return ``None``. If *self*
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is naive, it is presumed to represent time in the system timezone.
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is naive, it is presumed to represent time in the system time zone.
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If called without arguments (or with ``tz=None``) the system local
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timezone is assumed for the target timezone. The ``.tzinfo`` attribute of the converted
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time zone is assumed for the target time zone. The ``.tzinfo`` attribute of the converted
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datetime instance will be set to an instance of :class:`timezone`
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with the zone name and offset obtained from the OS.
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If ``self.tzinfo`` is *tz*, ``self.astimezone(tz)`` is equal to *self*: no
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adjustment of date or time data is performed. Else the result is local
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time in the timezone *tz*, representing the same UTC time as *self*: after
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time in the time zone *tz*, representing the same UTC time as *self*: after
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``astz = dt.astimezone(tz)``, ``astz - astz.utcoffset()`` will have
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the same date and time data as ``dt - dt.utcoffset()``.
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If you merely want to attach a time zone object *tz* to a datetime *dt* without
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If you merely want to attach a :class:`timezone` object *tz* to a datetime *dt* without
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adjustment of date and time data, use ``dt.replace(tzinfo=tz)``. If you
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merely want to remove the time zone object from an aware datetime *dt* without
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merely want to remove the :class:`!timezone` object from an aware datetime *dt* without
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# Convert self to UTC, and attach the new timezone object.
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There is no method to obtain the POSIX timestamp directly from a
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application uses this convention and your system timezone is not
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application uses this convention and your system time zone is not
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set to UTC, you can obtain the POSIX timestamp by supplying
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supply implementations of the standard :class:`tzinfo` methods needed by the
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:class:`.datetime` methods you use. The :mod:`!datetime` module provides
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:class:`timezone`, a simple concrete subclass of :class:`tzinfo` which can
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represent time zones with fixed offset from UTC such as UTC itself or North
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rely on this, unless user code calls :class:`tzinfo` methods directly. The
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time, and not need worry about objects in other time zones.
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attribute (a UTC timezone instance).
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attribute (a UTC :class:`!timezone` instance).
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``zoneinfo`` brings the *IANA timezone database* (also known as the Olson
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``zoneinfo`` brings the *IANA time zone database* (also known as the Olson
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database) to Python, and its usage is recommended.
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`IANA timezone database <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>`_
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`IANA time zone database <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>`_
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The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdata or zoneinfo) contains code
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except when the format includes sub-second components or time zone offset
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information, which are supported in ``datetime.strptime`` but are discarded by
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