Add zoneinfo to the datetime documentation (GH-29038)

We should have done this way back when 3.9 was released, but it fell off
the radar.

Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <git@m.ganssle.io>
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Module :mod:`time`
Time access and conversions.
Module :mod:`zoneinfo`
Concrete time zones representing the IANA time zone database.
Package `dateutil <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_
Third-party library with expanded time zone and parsing support.
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.. seealso::
`dateutil.tz <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tz.html>`_
:mod:`zoneinfo`
The :mod:`datetime` module has a basic :class:`timezone` class (for
handling arbitrary fixed offsets from UTC) and its :attr:`timezone.utc`
attribute (a UTC timezone instance).
*dateutil.tz* library brings the *IANA timezone database*
(also known as the Olson database) to Python, and its usage is
recommended.
``zoneinfo`` brings the *IANA timezone database* (also known as the Olson
database) to Python, and its usage is recommended.
`IANA timezone database <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>`_
The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdata or zoneinfo) contains code

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Add references to :mod:`zoneinfo` in the :mod:`datetime` documentation,
mostly replacing outdated references to ``dateutil.tz``. Change by Paul
Ganssle.