History of Confusion in the use of 'timezone'
<p>During the discussions on whether we should be using time zone or if timezone was acceptable, a few interesting miss uses of timezone came to light.</p>
<h3>XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime-timezones">3.2.7.3 Timezones</a> defines as a fixed minute accurate offset with no provision to identify the daylight saving element.</p>
<h3>Python</h3>
<p><a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timezone">datetime.timezone</a> also defines timezone as a fixed offset<br />
The <a class="reference internal" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">timezone</span></tt></a> class is a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></tt></a>, each instance of which represents a timezone defined by a fixed offset from UTC. Note that objects of this class cannot be used to represent timezone information in the locations where different offsets are used in different days of the year or where historical changes have been made to civil time.</p>
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<h3>XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime-timezones">3.2.7.3 Timezones</a> defines as a fixed minute accurate offset with no provision to identify the daylight saving element.</p>
<h3>Python</h3>
<p><a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timezone">datetime.timezone</a> also defines timezone as a fixed offset<br />
The <a class="reference internal" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">timezone</span></tt></a> class is a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><tt class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></tt></a>, each instance of which represents a timezone defined by a fixed offset from UTC. Note that objects of this class cannot be used to represent timezone information in the locations where different offsets are used in different days of the year or where historical changes have been made to civil time.</p>
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