[3.7] bpo-10381, bpo-32403: What's new entries for changes to datetime (gh-5814) by miss-islington · Pull Request #5929 · python/cpython

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* Significant speed improvements to alternate constructors for :class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.datetime` by using fast-path constructors when not constructing subclasses. (Contributed by Paul Ganssle in :issue:`32403`)
Build and C API Changes =======================
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* Added C API support for timezones with timezone constructors :c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffset` and :c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffsetAndName`, and access to the UTC singleton with :c:data:`PyDateTime_TimeZone_UTC`. Contributed by Paul Ganssle in :issue:`10381`.

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