On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 11:20 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> On 7/6/06, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]

>         One idea that was bounced around in my conversation with the
>         client was
>         that TIME_ZONE defaults to empty (or None, preferably) and if,
>         not set,
>         does not get inserted into the environment. Personally, I
>         don't really
>         care too much about this, since it's such a trivial thing to
>         set.
> 
> This seems like a reasonable idea to me. It has always slightly bugged
> me that the default timezone is America/Chicago, and I have to modify
> it on every project. Yes, it is a trivial thing to set, but 'system
> clock/no specific timezone' would be a better default than
> 'Chicago' (for everyone except Adrian, that is :-). 

The argument in favour of this is gathering strength: I just tried to
work out #2315 and, essentially, we're playing with fire trying to set
TZ on Windows systems. At least giving those people the option of
setting TIME_ZONE = None so that we don't mess up their existing
settings would be nicer than our current slightly misguided attempts.

Malcolm




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