There's a difference in behaviour between the ``fromutc`` method on a tzinfo between Python 2 and Python 3, though only under the specific case of Summer Time in regions whose usual offset is 0. From what I can tell, it's the Python 3 one which is wrong, based on it no longer matching the sample implementation provided in the docs and on it appearing to report the wrong times for ``datetime.now(tz)`` when on a machine configured for BST during June 2015. Similar results can also be achieved using a manually constructed ``datetime`` for dates during summer 2014. I've put the python script (and sample outputs) I used to investigate in a gist at https://gist.github.com/PeterJCLaw/d8bcc168d68acf066811#file-time_issues-py. The outputs there are for pythons 2.7.9 and 3.4.0.

Peter, Can you attach your demo script to the issue? Better yet, is it possible to explain the issue without referring to 100 lines of code?

Hi, Sorry for the overkill demo. I've attached a much shorter version, the key portion of which seems to be that, for the case of UK summer time the timezone, the tzinfo's `dst()` and `utcoffset()` methods return the same value. This results in the delta between the two (which my understanding suggests equates to the non-dst offset of the timezone) is zero (which is right). The python implementations (both in datetime.py and in the docs) cope with this by checking the DST difference and applying this after the timezone adjustments have happened. From a look through the CPython implementation, it looks to me like it's checking the wrong value before applying the DST difference. Specifically, on line 3033 in Modules/_datetimemodule.c, it checks `delta` before applying the DST. For the majority of timezones this happens to work since the standard offset is not 0 and it ends up doing the addition anyway (and no functionality is lost if the DST value is 0). Having tested changing the checked value to being dst rather than delta this does appear to fix this and all the existing tests still pass. Peter

I am afraid you misunderstand how fromutc() method works. Note that you rarely need to call it directly: use astimezone() method to convert between timezones.

I expect Peter is correct: the C fromutc() doesn't match the logic of the Python fromutc(), and there are no comments explaining why the C version changed the logic. The last 4 lines of his `time_issues.py` show the difference. The simplified UKSummerTime tzinfo always says the total UTC offset and the DST offset are +1:00:00. The Python .fromutc() adds that hour to the datetime passed in, but the C .fromutc() does not. That's because they implement different functions, not because Peter is using .fromutc() ;-)

It looks like I introduced this bug ~ 5 years ago when I made a switch from integer minutes offset to an arbitrary timedelta. It's rather amazing that it took so long to discover it.

Attaching a patch that should fix the issue.

Patch looks good to me! Thanks :-)

Thanks, Tim. Now I need to figure out how to commit to multiple branches. This goes to 3.4 through 3.6, right? or just to 3.5 and 3.6.

Afraid that's a question for python-dev - I lost track of the active branches over year ago :-(

I give up. Somehow my changes conflict with parent: 98335:0d3b64bbc82c user: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> date: Sun Sep 27 22:38:33 2015 +0300 summary: Issue #25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the and my knowledge of hg is not enough to get out. When are we switching to git?

New changeset ff68705c56a8 by Alexander Belopolsky in branch '3.4': Closes issue #23600: Wrong results from tzinfo.fromutc(). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ff68705c56a8 New changeset c706c062f545 by Alexander Belopolsky in branch '3.5': Closes issue #23600: Wrong results from tzinfo.fromutc(). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c706c062f545 New changeset 4879c10ce982 by Alexander Belopolsky in branch 'default': Closes issue #23600: Wrong results from tzinfo.fromutc(). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4879c10ce982 New changeset cbcf82f92c25 by Alexander Belopolsky in branch '3.4': Closes issue #23600: Wrong results from tzinfo.fromutc(). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cbcf82f92c25 New changeset 848d665bc312 by Alexander Belopolsky in branch '3.5': Closes issue #23600: Wrong results from tzinfo.fromutc(). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/848d665bc312

OK, I have no idea how I managed to create two commits in 3.4 and 3.5 and loose the NEWS entry in the end.

Awesome, thanks for fixing this.

Thank you for your persistence and patience, Peter! It shouldn't have been this hard for you :-(