Issue#26616:Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.
diff --git a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
index 7743c67..b907164 100644
--- a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
@@ -3426,6 +3426,14 @@
         self.assertEqual(dt, local)
         self.assertEqual(local.strftime("%z %Z"), "-0400 EDT")
 
+    @support.run_with_tz('EST+05EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0')
+    def test_astimezone_default_near_fold(self):
+        # Issue #26616.
+        u = datetime(2015, 11, 1, 5, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+        t = u.astimezone()
+        s = t.astimezone()
+        self.assertEqual(t.tzinfo, s.tzinfo)
+
     def test_aware_subtract(self):
         cls = self.theclass
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3baeeec..1127e37 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.
+
 - Issue #21925: :func:`warnings.formatwarning` now catches exceptions on
   ``linecache.getline(...)`` to be able to log :exc:`ResourceWarning` emitted
   late during the Python shutdown process.
diff --git a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
index e3de537..0e50023 100644
--- a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
@@ -4749,7 +4749,12 @@
     PyObject *nameo = NULL;
     const char *zone = NULL;
 
-    delta = datetime_subtract((PyObject *)utc_time, PyDateTime_Epoch);
+    delta = new_delta(ymd_to_ord(GET_YEAR(utc_time), GET_MONTH(utc_time),
+                                 GET_DAY(utc_time)) - 719163,
+                      60 * (60 * DATE_GET_HOUR(utc_time) +
+                            DATE_GET_MINUTE(utc_time)) +
+                      DATE_GET_SECOND(utc_time),
+                      0, 0);
     if (delta == NULL)
         return NULL;
     one_second = new_delta(0, 1, 0, 0);