On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But nobody would be able to remember that mnemonic -- the far majority of > people simply don't know whether to move the clock forward or back when DST > begins or ends > Somehow I still remember the "spring forward : fall back" mnemonic I learned it grad school -- but I do'nt think that helps us here.... > - I'm disappointed that there are now some APIs that explicitly treat a > > naive datetime as local (using the system timezone). indeed -- but as long as it's isolated to this one corner of the API, I guess we're OK. BTW, numpy's datetime assumes the locale timezone when parsing ISO 8601 strings without an offset -- and it's a disaster. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected]
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