Updated PEP 495.

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Alexander Belopolsky 2015-08-07 22:58:51 -04:00
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The ``replace()`` methods of the ``datetime.time`` and
``datetime.datetime`` classes will get a new keyword-only argument
called ``first`` with the default value ``True``. The value of the
``first`` argument will be used to set the value of the ``first``
attribute in the returned instance.
called ``first`` with the default value ``True``. It will
becave similarly to the other ``replace()`` arguments: if the ``first``
argument is specified and given a boolean value, the new instance
returned by ``replace()`` will have its ``first`` attribute set
to that value. In CPython, a non-boolean value of ``first`` will
raise a ``TypeError``, but other implementations may allow the value
``None`` to behave the same as when ``first`` is not given. If the
``first`` argument is not specified, the original value of the ``first``
attribute is copied to the result.
Affected Behaviors
------------------
The ``timestamp()`` method of ``datetime.datetime`` will return value
advanced by 3600 if ``self`` represents an ambiguous hour and
``first`` is False.
Conversion from naive to aware
..............................
The ``astimezone()`` method will now work for naive ``self``. The
system local timezone will be assumed in this case and the ``first``
flag will be used to determine which local timezone is in effect
in the ambiguous case.
For example, on a system set to US/Eastern timezone::
>>> dt = datetime(2014, 11, 2, 1, 30)
>>> dt.astimezone().strftime('%D %T %Z%z')
'11/02/14 01:30:00 EDT-0400'
>>> dt.replace(first=False).astimezone().strftime('%D %T %Z%z')
'11/02/14 01:30:00 EST-0500'
Conversion to POSIX seconds from EPOCH
......................................
The ``timestamp()`` method of ``datetime.datetime`` will return different
values for ``datetime.datetime`` instances that differ only by the value
of their ``first`` attribute if and only if these instances represent an
ambiguous or a non-existent value.
When a ``datetime.datetime`` instance ``dt`` represents an ambiguous
(repeated) time, there are two values ``s0`` and ``s1`` such that::
datetime.fromtimestamp(s0) == datetime.fromtimestamp(s1) == dt
In this case, ``dt.timestamp()`` will return the smaller of ``s0``
and ``s1`` values if ``dt.first == True`` and the larger otherwise.
For example, on a system set to US/Eastern timezone::
>>> datetime(2014, 11, 2, 1, 30, first=True).timestamp()
1414906200.0
>>> datetime(2014, 11, 2, 1, 30, first=False).timestamp()
1414909800.0
When a ``datetime.datetime`` instance ``dt`` represents an invalid
time, there is no value ``s`` for which::
datetime.fromtimestamp(s) == dt
but we can form two "nice to know" values of ``s`` that differ
by the size of the gap in seconds. One is the value of ``s``
that would correspond to ``dt`` in a timezone where the UTC offset
is always the same as the offset right before the gap and the
other is the similar value but in a timezone the UTC offset
is always the same as the offset right after the gap.
The value returned by ``dt.timestamp()`` given the invalid
``dt`` will be the larger of the two "nice to know" values
if ``dt.first == True`` and the larger otherwise.
For example, on a system set to US/Eastern timezone::
>>> datetime(2015, 3, 8, 2, 30, first=True).timestamp()
1425799800.0
>>> datetime(2015, 3, 8, 2, 30, first=False).timestamp()
1425796200.0
Conversion from POSIX seconds from EPOCH
........................................
The ``fromtimestamp()`` static method of ``datetime.datetime`` will
set the ``first`` attribute appropriately in the returned object.
For example, on a system set to US/Eastern timezone::
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1414906200)
datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 2, 1, 30)
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1414906200 + 3600)
datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 2, 1, 30, first=False)
Implementations of tzinfo in stdlib
...................................
No new implementations of ``datetime.tzinfo`` abstract class are
introduced in this PEP. The existing (fixed offset) timezones do
not introduce ambiguous local times and their ``utcoffset()``
implementation will return the same constant value as they do now
regardless of the value of ``first``.
New guidelines will be published for implementing concrete timezones
with variable UTC offset.
Guidelines for new tzinfo implementations
-----------------------------------------
Implementors of concrete ``datetime.tzinfo`` subclasses who want to
support variable UTC offsets (due to DST and other causes) must follow
these guidelines.
New subclasses should override the baseclass ``fromutc()`` method so
that in all cases where two UTC times ``u1`` and ``u2`` (``u1`` <``u2``)
corespond to the same local time ``fromutc(u1)`` will return an instance
with ``first=True`` and ``fromutc(u1)`` will return an instance
with ``first=False``.
New implementations of ``utcoffset()`` and ``dst()`` methods should
ignore the value of ``first`` unless they are called on the ambiguous
or invalid times.
On an ambiguous time introduced at the end of DST, the values returned
by ``utcoffset()`` and ``dst()`` methods should be as follows
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
| | first=True | first=False |
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
| utcoff() | stdoff + hour | stdoff |
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
| dst() | hour | zero |
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
where ``stdoff`` is the standard (non-DST) offset,
``hour = timedelta(hours=1)`` and ``zero = timedelta(0)``.
On an invalid time introduced at the start of DST, the values returned
by ``utcoffset()`` and ``dst()`` methods should be as follows
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
| | first=True | first=False |
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
| utcoff() | stdoff | stdoff + hour |
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
| dst() | zero | hour |
+-----------------+----------------+------------------+
On ambiguous/invalid times introduced by the change in the standard time
offset, the ``dst()`` method should return the same value regardless of
the value of ``first`` and the ``utcoff()`` should return values
according to the following table:
+-----------------+----------------+-----------------------------+
| | first=True | first=False |
+-----------------+----------------+-----------------------------+
| ambiguous | oldoff | newoff = oldoff - delta |
+-----------------+----------------+-----------------------------+
| invalid | oldoff | newoff = oldoff + delta |
+-----------------+----------------+-----------------------------+
Implementations of tzinfo
.........................
Subclasses of ``datetime.tzinfo`` will read the values of ``first`` in
``utcoffset()`` and ``dst()`` methods and set it appropriately in the
instances returned by the ``fromutc()`` method. No change to the
signatures of these methods is proposed.
Pickle size
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@ -117,7 +259,7 @@ Temporal Arithmetics
--------------------
The value of "first" will be ignored in all operations except those
that involve conversion between timezones.
that involve conversion between timezones. [#]_
The result of addition (subtraction) of a timedelta to (from) a
datetime will always have ``first`` set to ``True`` even if the
@ -125,9 +267,17 @@ original datetime instance had ``first=False``.
(The only methods that will be able to produce non-default value of
"first" are ``__new__``, and ``replace()`` methods of the
``datetime.datetime`` and ``datetime.time`` classes ``now()`` and
``fromtimestamp()`` methods of the ``datetime.datetime`` class, and
``fromutc()`` method of some tzinfo implementations.)
``datetime.datetime`` and ``datetime.time`` classes ``now()``,
``astimezone()`` and ``fromtimestamp()`` methods of the
``datetime.datetime`` class, and ``fromutc()`` method of some tzinfo
implementations.)
.. [#] As of Python 3.5, ``tzinfo`` is ignored whenever timedelta is
added or subtracted from a ``datetime.datetime`` instance or when
one ``datetime.datetime`` instance is subtracted from another with
the same (even not-None) ``tzinfo``. This may change in the future,
but such changes are outside of the scope of this PEP.
Comparison
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