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I have a lot of doubt about a time library that defaults to UTC at all.

Having spent a lot of time dealing with timezones, I have a strong feeling that naive should be the default unless explicitly given a timezone, and your code should blow up when it is given them (or possibly gracefully fail).

Admittedly I haven't had a chance to play with maya as I haven't been able to get it to install.

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Naïve is what usually gets everyone into trouble since you have no frame of reference and you need to do all kinds of magic to try and deduce timezones and adapt to it. It also makes it utterly impossible to properly deal with DST changes etc. unless you know that everyone using your system is coming from the same TZ.

I don't like the default of UTC either though. Explicit is better than implicit, so make people always specify a timezone instead which avoids all form of ambiguity.

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