From: Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:43:33 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #14448: mention pytz; patch by Andrew Svetlov
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Issue #14448: mention pytz; patch by Andrew Svetlov
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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index f3b087096c..b8e9318d75 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1521,6 +1521,14 @@ Applications that can't bear such ambiguities should avoid using hybrid
 other fixed-offset :class:`tzinfo` subclass (such as a class representing only
 EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)).
 
+.. seealso::
+
+   `pytz <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/>`_
+      The Standard Library has no :class:`tzinfo` instances except for UTC, but
+      it exists a third-party library which brings Olson timezone database to
+      Python: `pytz`.
+
+      `pytz` contains up-to-date information and its usage is recommended.
 
 .. _strftime-strptime-behavior: