Maya
Datetimes for Humans™ (by kennethreitz)
pytz
pytz Python historical timezone library and database (by stub42)
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Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West
Well, pytz actually is technically flawed at the moment because it cannot read TZif Version 2+ files, so it breaks for dates >2038 (and it would break if you tried to point it at system data generated with zic's "slim" mode), see this: https://github.com/stub42/pytz/issues/48
But you are right that pandas' use of pytz is benign and as far as I know doesn't suffer the same usability issues.
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Searching for a date/time library with full historical TZ data and adjustments given epoch
If I understand this correctly from the documentation, pytz (or rather the tz database for which the library provides an interface) accounts for political shifts/changes in time zone data / DST.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Maya and pytz you can also consider the following projects:
arrow - 🏹 Better dates & times for Python
Pendulum - Python datetimes made easy
dateutil - Useful extensions to the standard Python datetime features
delorean - Delorean: Time Travel Made Easy
moment - A Python library for dealing with dates
Chronyk - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates
PyTime - PyTime is an easy-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.