I propose to end the argument about what "time zone" means by insisting it means whatever I think it means, and that's the end of it ;-)
Specifically, a time zone is a function mapping UTC calendar notation to another (possibly identical) calendar notation. For some purposes, the destination's idea of "calendar notation" includes strings like "America/Chicago" or "CDT"/"CST", and in others it may only include a notion of a fixed UTC offset (like "-05:00"). All are valid "time zones", and, e.g., someone insisting that their idea of calendar notation must magically include a string mnemonically distinguishing daylight from standard time is on ground just as solid as anyone else. Telling them they "shouldn't" insist on that won't work. Showing them it's easily obtained by other means also won't work. Unless, of course, their idea of "time zone" is "how civil time actually works" ;-) _______________________________________________ Datetime-SIG mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/datetime-sig The PSF Code of Conduct applies to this mailing list: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
