> However, apparently, the idea goes back to 1917 Germany. As Paul Eggert > explained in private correspondence, > > """ > fold=0 and fold=1 is like the longstanding German standard for expressing > times as strings, which uses "A" and "B" to distinguish time stamps that > would otherwise be ambiguous. If I understand things correctly, normally > fold=0, but you can have fold=1 when time stamps are repeated. For more > about the German standard, you can start with the Wikipedia description here: > [2] > """ > > [2]: > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerzeit#Offizielle_Regelung_der_Zeitumstellung
My favorite part of that Wikipedia article is this sentence: "Sie darf nicht verwechselt werden mit der international üblichen Abkürzung der Zeitzonen, nach der 2 Uhr MESZ als 0200B und 2 Uhr MEZ als 0200A bezeichnet werden." Which is to say (IIUC) that the international standard is that the first occurrence is B and the second is A, exactly the opposite of the German system. O Weh! ijs _______________________________________________ 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/
