D369: util: add `hgdatetopython` to convert hg-style dates to datetimes

Tue Aug 15 14:03:09 EDT 2017

phillco added inline comments.

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> durin42 wrote in util.py:1862
> This function makes me really nervous, because it's a naive datetime rather than a tz-aware datetime. Could we do better about preserving the exact point-in-time value of the tz-aware time information?
> 
> ("no" is a possible answer here, but I'd really like to know why we're not storing the zone offset in the datetime object.)

Hm, good question. I only do that because that's what the earlier code did -- that change dates from `87c6ad2251d8703d7f16d51e99e3d1c040f0be49`, I think.

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  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D369

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