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Author	terry.reedy
Recipients	belopolsky, docs@python, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2012-09-13.18:07:20
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Message-id	<1347559641.51.0.772200483389.issue15941@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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"time.timezone The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative in most of Western Europe, positive in the US, zero in the UK)." Quite aside from #9305 (UTC is not a place), this does not specify the effect of setting this attribute. It does not change the output of localtime, asctime, or ctime (on Windows). Does is affect anything else? strftime? If setting it has no effect, the doc should say so. (And then perhaps it should be made read-only in the future, as setting it expecting an effect would be a bug.)

"time.timezone 
The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative in most of Western Europe, positive in the US, zero in the UK)."

Quite aside from #9305 (UTC is not a place), this does not specify the effect of setting this attribute. It does not change the output of localtime, asctime, or ctime (on Windows). Does is affect anything else? strftime? If setting it has no effect, the doc should say so. (And then perhaps it should be made read-only in the future, as setting it expecting an effect would be a bug.)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-09-13 18:07:21	terry.reedy	set	recipients: + terry.reedy, belopolsky, vstinner, docs@python
2012-09-13 18:07:21	terry.reedy	set	messageid: <1347559641.51.0.772200483389.issue15941@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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