[Alex] > I wonder, what's the point of saving daylight at the place where sun does > not set? (or does not rise depending on the time of the year?)
What's the point of DST _anywhere_? Politics :-) But in Antarctica, the base notion of "time zone" itself is essentially senseless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Antarctica """ Antarctica sits on every line of longitude, due to the South Pole being situated near the middle of the continent. Theoretically Antarctica would be located in all time zones; however, areas south of the Antarctic Circle experience extreme day-night cycles near the times of the June and December solstices, making it difficult to determine which time zone would be appropriate. For practical purposes time zones are usually based on territorial claims; however, many stations use the time of the country they are owned by or the time zone of their supply base (e.g. McMurdo Station and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station use New Zealand time due to their main supply base beingChristchurch, New Zealand).[1] Nearby stations can have different time zones, due to their belonging to different countries. Many areas have no time zone since nothing is decided and there are not even any temporary settlements that have any clocks. They are simply labeled with UTC time.[2] """ Then there's a list of "standard" UTC offsets for various Antarctica locations, varying from -4 to +12. _______________________________________________ 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/
