On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > A "named offset" is an abbreviation such as UTC, EST, MSK, MSD which (at any > given time) > corresponds to a fixed offset from UTC.
That assumes the abbreviations are unique. They're not. Just this morning I had to explain to a new student of mine that no, my time zone is not "EST" = New York time, it's actually "EST" = Melbourne time. Granted, most of the time New York and Melbourne are opposite on DST, so one will be EST and one EDT, but that trick won't always help you. (BTW, thanks Lennart for your "Blame it on Caesar" PyCon talk. I linked my student to it as a "for further information" resource. Good fun, and a great summary of why political time is such a minefield.) If this proposal goes through, in some form or another, will there be One Obvious Way to do timezone-aware calculations in Python? That would definitely be an improvement. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
