On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not as well-known as you might think. I, for one, don't even know how > to translate it in my native Russian. I bet people in Russia who know what > Moscow time is outnumber those who know what UTC is at least 100 to 1. I > bet you will get a similar ratio in California between UTC and say Eastern > Standard Time.
Of course. Local time is always better known than UTC. But any given local time is only going to be known in its own locality. I would bet that the people in Russia who know Eastern Standard Time, or the people in California who know Moscow time, would be quite low. > Let's have a show of hands here: how many people know what "C" stands for in > UTC and what "M" stands in GMT and what is the significance of these > letters? I know, on both counts, because I'm a wonk. But those specifics are part of what I would elide, along with leap seconds and relativity, when explaining a scheduling system. (Let's face it - nobody's going to schedule a meeting to such accuracy that any of it will matter.) Time is a lot messier than most people need to care about. 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/
