diff --git a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
index 3f3c60aceaf..cf496b4371a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ See http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/TestCases
 
 import sys
 import pickle
+import random
 import unittest
 
 from operator import lt, le, gt, ge, eq, ne, truediv, floordiv, mod
@@ -76,8 +77,18 @@ class PicklableFixedOffset(FixedOffset):
     def __init__(self, offset=None, name=None, dstoffset=None):
         FixedOffset.__init__(self, offset, name, dstoffset)
 
+class _TZInfo(tzinfo):
+    def utcoffset(self, datetime_module):
+        return random.random()
+
 class TestTZInfo(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    def test_refcnt_crash_bug_22044(self):
+        tz1 = _TZInfo()
+        dt1 = datetime(2014, 7, 21, 11, 32, 3, 0, tz1)
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            dt1.utcoffset()
+
     def test_non_abstractness(self):
         # In order to allow subclasses to get pickled, the C implementation
         # wasn't able to get away with having __init__ raise
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index f7642c88a20..fdf89d4200a 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ Russell Finn
 Dan Finnie
 Nils Fischbeck
 Frederik Fix
+Tom Flanagan
 Matt Fleming
 Hernán Martínez Foffani
 Artem Fokin
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8d32544ad59..d580e634023 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores
   BlockingIOError exceptions.
 
+- Issue #22044: Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method.
+  Patch by Tom Flanagan.
+
 - Issue #19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not
   a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence "\033[1034h" into stdout. This
   sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable
diff --git a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
index 496ff348f17..d8225bae490 100644
--- a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
@@ -897,11 +897,11 @@ call_tzinfo_method(PyObject *tzinfo, char *name, PyObject *tzinfoarg)
         }
     }
     else {
-        Py_DECREF(offset);
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
                      "tzinfo.%s() must return None or "
                      "timedelta, not '%.200s'",
                      name, Py_TYPE(offset)->tp_name);
+        Py_DECREF(offset);
         return NULL;
     }
 
@@ -2153,7 +2153,7 @@ delta_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
              * is odd. Note that x is odd when it's last bit is 1. The
              * code below uses bitwise and operation to check the last
              * bit. */
-	    temp = PyNumber_And(x, one);  /* temp <- x & 1 */
+            temp = PyNumber_And(x, one);  /* temp <- x & 1 */
             if (temp == NULL) {
                 Py_DECREF(x);
                 goto Done;
@@ -3224,10 +3224,10 @@ timezone_richcompare(PyDateTime_TimeZone *self,
     if (op != Py_EQ && op != Py_NE)
         Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED;
     if (Py_TYPE(other) != &PyDateTime_TimeZoneType) {
-	if (op == Py_EQ)
-	    Py_RETURN_FALSE;
-	else
-	    Py_RETURN_TRUE;
+        if (op == Py_EQ)
+            Py_RETURN_FALSE;
+        else
+            Py_RETURN_TRUE;
     }
     return delta_richcompare(self->offset, other->offset, op);
 }
@@ -4814,7 +4814,7 @@ datetime_astimezone(PyDateTime_DateTime *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
     static char *keywords[] = {"tz", NULL};
 
     if (! PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kw, "|O:astimezone", keywords,
-				      &tzinfo))
+                                      &tzinfo))
         return NULL;
 
     if (check_tzinfo_subclass(tzinfo) == -1)