Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> [ a bunch of stuff that I totally agree with ] > > No response needed here :) > > So I was wrong on the specific example of .today(), but asking the > question the other way is at least helpful. Maybe the best solution is > exactly what Roy already posted, or maybe there's some other way to > achieve that. In any case, there is a solution, albeit not as clean as > I would have liked. > >> With time zones, as with text encodings, there is a single technically >> elegant solution (for text: Unicode; for time zones: twelve simple, >> static zones that never change) > > Twelve or twenty-four? Or are you thinking we should all be an even > number of hours away from UTC, which would also work?
Even 24 doesn't take into account DST. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
