On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:40 AM Alan Gauld via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
>
> On 31/08/2021 23:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > Ah, good to know. I think that actually makes a lot of sense; in the
> > US, they try to let everyone pretend that the rest of the world
> > doesn't exist ("we always change at 2AM"), but in Europe, they try to
> > synchronize for the convenience of commerce ("everyone changes at 1AM
> > UTC").
>
> There's another gotcha with DST changes. The EU and USA have different
> dates on which they change to DST.
>
> In one of them (I can't recall which is which) they change on the 4th
> weekend of October/March in the other they change on the last weekend.
>
> That means on some years (when there are 5 weekends) there is a
> week when one has changed and the other hasn't. That caused us
> a lot of head scratching the first time we encountered it because
> our service centres in the US and EU were getting inconsistent
> time reporting and some updates showing as having happened in
> the future!
>I live in Australia. You folks all change in *the wrong direction*. Twice a year, there's a roughly two-month period that I call "DST season", when different countries (or groups of countries) switch DST. It is a nightmare to schedule anything during that time. The ONLY way is to let the computer handle it. Don't try to predict ANYTHING about DST manually. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
