[issue7229] Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading

2011-01-11 Thread Tomas Kubes
Tomas Kubes mr_na...@centrum.cz added the comment: I am sorry, but as an original initiator of the the issue I find the argumentation of Alexander Belopolsky vastly ridiculous. Are you really seriously convinced that an average person responsible for Python application development

[issue7229] Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading

2011-01-11 Thread Tomas Kubes
Tomas Kubes mr_na...@centrum.cz added the comment: Hello, I find this version very clear. Thanks Tomas -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7229

[issue7229] Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading

2011-01-11 Thread Tomas Kubes
Tomas Kubes mr_na...@centrum.cz added the comment: why do you think someone reading about time.daylight actually wants to check if DST is currently active? If you are not familiar with the cryptic names of POSIX but live in normal world, time.daylight sounds like a quite probable place where

[issue7229] Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading

2011-01-11 Thread Tomas Kubes
Tomas Kubes mr_na...@centrum.cz added the comment: I think you are confusing the purposes of a reference manual with that of a tutorial or an FAQ collection. There is a fine line between them. Even though reference manual should not be a substitute for a tutorial, I still believe it should

[issue7229] Manual entry for time.daylight can be misleading

2009-10-28 Thread Tomas Kubes
New submission from Tomas Kubes mr_na...@centrum.cz: Hello, it is not obvious that the time.daylight data item reports nonzero values even when DST is currently not being used (ie. in winter) but the active timezone has DST defined for some other parts of the year. Current manual entry can