Index: Modules/datetimemodule.c
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--- Modules/datetimemodule.c	(revision 81601)
+++ Modules/datetimemodule.c	(working copy)
@@ -2865,6 +2865,14 @@
     return tzinfo_nogo("utcoffset");
 }
 
+PyDoc_STRVAR(tzinfo_utcoffset_doc,
+"utcoffset() -> offset\n\
+\n\
+If self.tzinfo is None, returns None, else returns\n\
+self.tzinfo.utcoffset(self), and raises an exception if the latter\n\
+doesn't return None, or a timedelta object representing a whole number\n\
+of minutes with magnitude less than one day.\n");
+
 static PyObject *
 tzinfo_dst(PyDateTime_TZInfo *self, PyObject *dt)
 {
@@ -3019,8 +3027,7 @@
      PyDoc_STR("datetime -> string name of time zone.")},
 
     {"utcoffset",       (PyCFunction)tzinfo_utcoffset,          METH_O,
-     PyDoc_STR("datetime -> minutes east of UTC (negative for "
-               "west of UTC).")},
+     tzinfo_utcoffset_doc},
 
     {"dst",             (PyCFunction)tzinfo_dst,                METH_O,
      PyDoc_STR("datetime -> DST offset in minutes east of UTC.")},