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Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West (2018)

by @pganssle blog.ganssle.io published 2018-03-1911 min read

An explanation of the differences between dateutil and pytz's time zone models and why people tend to misuse pytz and introduce bugs into their datetime code.

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