Why does datetime give different timezone formats for the same timezone?

Question

>>> now = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('Asia/Tokyo'))
>>> dt = datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second, now.microsecond, pytz.timezone('Asia/Tokyo'))
>>> now
datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 7, 16, 9, 24, 177751, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Tokyo' JST+9:00:00 STD>)
>>> dt = datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second, now.microsecond, pytz.timezone('Asia/Tokyo'))
>>> dt
datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 7, 16, 9, 24, 177751, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Tokyo' LMT+9:19:00 STD>)

For now I got JST+9:00:00 and for dt I got LMT+9:19:00. I don't understand why datetime uses a different format.

When I compare the times they are different:

>>> now == dt
False

How can I convert LMT to JST so that now == dt is True? I need to use datetime(2018, 9, 7, 16, 9, 24, 177751, timezone('Asia/Tokyo')) and at the same time I want JST.

This may help. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12626045/pytz-and-astimezone-cannot-be-applied-to-a-naive-datetime — Rolf of Saxony, Sep 07 '18 at 09:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '18 at 11:22

As noted in a related question's answer, Never create datetime with timezone info by using datetime(). Instead, you should use localize to convert datetimes to JST after creating them in UTC.

>>> import pytz
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>>
>>> now = datetime.now(pytz.utc)
>>> dt = datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second, now.microsecond, pytz.utc)
>>> jst = pytz.timezone('Asia/Tokyo')
>>> jst.normalize(now)
datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 7, 20, 21, 44, 653897, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Tokyo' JST+9:00:00 STD>)
>>> jst.normalize(dt)
datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 7, 20, 21, 44, 653897, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Asia/Tokyo' JST+9:00:00 STD>)
>>> now == dt
True

Why does datetime give different timezone formats for the same timezone?

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