bpo-45335: Add note to `sqlite3` docs about "timestamp" converter (GH-29200) (GH...

(cherry picked from commit 3877fc02f7a8801ba5ce0e94b6075b3fdd9778d0)

Co-authored-by: Ian Fisher <ian@iafisher.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index b9436daaebb4b4ea118a7a6f073a4acd081ec33f..b24a2f0985489124285480c5fe27b53efe085af6 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -1062,6 +1062,12 @@ If a timestamp stored in SQLite has a fractional part longer than 6
 numbers, its value will be truncated to microsecond precision by the
 timestamp converter.
 
+.. note::
+
+   The default "timestamp" converter ignores UTC offsets in the database and
+   always returns a naive :class:`datetime.datetime` object. To preserve UTC
+   offsets in timestamps, either leave converters disabled, or register an
+   offset-aware converter with :func:`register_converter`.
 
 .. _sqlite3-controlling-transactions: