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Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python
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Hacker News | Oct 6, 2026 | ariebovenberg
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Pendulum’s + counts elapsed time instead. and a good reason to use Pendulum. To convert a datetime, -> datetime. astimezone() # standard library (C) -> ZoneInfo. fromutc() # standard library (C): computes dt + offset -> DateTime. __add__() # Pendulum: which + did you mean? Interestingly, Pendulum’s own add() method already works this way. standard library’s.
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