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+# Introduction
+
+Pendulum is a Python package to ease datetimes manipulation.
+
+It provides classes that are drop-in replacements for the native ones (they inherit from them).
+
+Special care has been taken to ensure timezones are handled correctly,
+and are based on the underlying `tzinfo` implementation.
+For example, all comparisons are done in `UTC` or in the timezone of the datetime being used.
+
+```python
+>>> import pendulum
+
+>>> dt_toronto = pendulum.datetime(2012, 1, 1, tz='America/Toronto')
+>>> dt_vancouver = pendulum.datetime(2012, 1, 1, tz='America/Vancouver')
+
+>>> print(dt_vancouver.diff(dt_toronto).in_hours())
+3
+```
+
+The default timezone, except when using the `now()`, method will always be `UTC`.