The naive time thing in python really is (was) a nightmare. I once noticed that a db library we use when storing a timestamp in the db would calculate that time

The naive time thing in python really is (was) a nightmare. I once noticed that a db library we use when storing a timestamp in the db would calculate that timestamp from 1970-01-01 00:00:00 at _local time_ instead of utc and had to patch that to make sure we never store a wrong timestamp in our db (luckily all our production servers run on UTC as the local timezone). Glad that it's finally being addressed at the language level.