The newer pytz has minute for a timezone

Question

Why did they add 6 more minutes to that? How can I make my own fix?

>>> import pytz
>>> pytz.__version__
'2015.4'
>>> pytz.timezone('Asia/Shanghai')
<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Shanghai' LMT+8:06:00 STD>

Answer 1

Use it this way:

import pytz
import datetime

tz = pytz.timezone('Asia/Shanghai')
tz.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 13, 0, 0, 0, 0))

datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 13, 0, 0, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Shanghai' CST+8:00:00 STD>)