Python datetime not including DST when using pytz timezone
- by Jesper
If I convert a UTC datetime to swedish format, summertime is included (CEST). However, while creating a datetime with sweden as the timezone, it gets CET instead of CEST. Why is this?
>>> # Modified for readability
>>> import pytz
>>> import datetime
>>> sweden = pytz.timezone('Europe/Stockholm')
>>>
>>> datetime.datetime(2010, 4, 20, 16, 20, tzinfo=pytz.utc).astimezone(sweden)
datetime(2010, 4, 20, 18, 20, tzinfo=<... 'Europe/Stockholm' CEST+2:00:00 DST>)
>>>
>>> datetime.datetime(2010, 4, 20, 18, 20, tzinfo=sweden)
datetime(2010, 4, 20, 18, 20, tzinfo=<... 'Europe/Stockholm' CET+1:00:00 STD>)
>>>