On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:12 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: > On planes, the situation seems to be similar. I've not been on a flight > yet where the captain announces new time zones midway :-)
Me neither. Usually what I see is "Time at origin" and "Time at destination", and occasionally a few other time points, but nobody really cares about "time right underneath us". > Perhaps we should just standardize on UTC world-wide and then > instead have the work day begin at different times depending > on location. Crazy idea, but then it'd safe us all a lot of > work :-) > Yes! Yes, a hundred times yes! Whenever possible, I try to synchronize on UTC with everyone. Our Dungeons & Dragons campaigns are all scheduled that way - eg I run one at 2AM UTC every Sunday. It's fair on everyone, that way; nobody has to cope with more than one timezone's DST changes, and only ever their own. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/
