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bpo-45515: Add zoneinfo to the datetime documentation (GH-29038) (GH-29065)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8cef526a871695f8df4fac167139bbf3292396db
commit: 8cef526a871695f8df4fac167139bbf3292396db
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
committer: ambv <lukasz@langa.pl>
date: 2021-10-19T20:35:34+02:00
summary:

bpo-45515: Add zoneinfo to the datetime documentation (GH-29038) (GH-29065)

We should have done this way back when 3.9 was released, but it fell off
the radar.

Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <git@m.ganssle.io>
(cherry picked from commit 8e40ca127fa92d6113617c80710e0a077977a84d)

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-18-14-52-48.bpo-45515.aXdvm_.rst
M Doc/library/datetime.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 196aa84473f13..0f8b70cdedb45 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ on efficient attribute extraction for output formatting and manipulation.
Module :mod:`time`
Time access and conversions.

+ Module :mod:`zoneinfo`
+ Concrete time zones representing the IANA time zone database.
+
Package `dateutil <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_
Third-party library with expanded time zone and parsing support.

@@ -2174,14 +2177,13 @@ only EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)).

.. seealso::

- `dateutil.tz <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tz.html>`_
+ :mod:`zoneinfo`
The :mod:`datetime` module has a basic :class:`timezone` class (for
handling arbitrary fixed offsets from UTC) and its :attr:`timezone.utc`
attribute (a UTC timezone instance).

- *dateutil.tz* library brings the *IANA timezone database*
- (also known as the Olson database) to Python, and its usage is
- recommended.
+ ``zoneinfo`` brings the *IANA timezone database* (also known as the Olson
+ database) to Python, and its usage is recommended.

`IANA timezone database <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>`_
The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdata or zoneinfo) contains code
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-18-14-52-48.bpo-45515.aXdvm_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-18-14-52-48.bpo-45515.aXdvm_.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..382733ff91883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-18-14-52-48.bpo-45515.aXdvm_.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Add references to :mod:`zoneinfo` in the :mod:`datetime` documentation,
+mostly replacing outdated references to ``dateutil.tz``. Change by Paul
+Ganssle.

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