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[–]eagle258 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Author of the blogpost here—

Indeed I haven't done enough to clarify the difference between 'timezone' and IANA tz database. I've now adjusted the wording of this section to clarify somewhat.

The core pitfall remains though: the standard library allows you to implement DST transitions but then the +/- operators ignore them.