The documentation suggests that two datetimes that represent the same moment should compare equal, even if they have different timezones: "If both comparands are aware and have different tzinfo attributes, the comparands are first adjusted by subtracting their UTC offsets (obtained from self.utcoffset())." (below https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.fold)
This doesn't seem to be true for == with ZoneInfo timezones, even though it is true for <= and >=, and -, meaning these seem to violate mathematical laws/expectations:
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from datetime import datetime, timezone
dt_utc = datetime(2020, 11, 1, 8, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
dt_local = dt_utc.astimezone(ZoneInfo("America/Los_Angeles"))
print(f"{dt_local == dt_utc = }")
print(f"{dt_local <= dt_utc = }")
print(f"{dt_local >= dt_utc = }")
print(f"{dt_local - dt_utc = }")
Output:
dt_local == dt_utc = False
dt_local <= dt_utc = True
dt_local >= dt_utc = True
dt_local - dt_utc = datetime.timedelta(0)
Tested with:
- macOS 11.4; Python 3.9.7, 3.10.1, 3.11.0a3
- Linux; via docker image python:3.9.7
Full test including comparisons to python-dateutil (same behaviour as ZoneInfo) and pytz (== gives True as expected) is attached.
Comparing timestamps for exact equality is potentially unusual, but we use it extensively in tests for some time-handling functions.
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