[Datetime-SIG] Clearing up terminology

[ISAAC J SCHWABACHER]

Down with the governments of the world! Arthur David Olson for supreme leader!

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From: Datetime-SIG <datetime-sig-bounces+ischwabacher=wisc.edu at python.org> on behalf of Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 13:00
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Subject: Re: [Datetime-SIG] Clearing up terminology

On 7/30/2015 10:48, ISAAC J SCHWABACHER wrote:
> Australia/Melbourne is a time zone, +1000 is an offset, and EST is an accident waiting to happen.
>
> ijs
>

Australia/Melbourne is the *Olsan name* for a time zone.  +1000 is the
current legal definition of that timezone in terms of a GMT offset, EST
is the common name of one of many timezones, likely US Eastern Standard
Time, but could be one of many.

Timezones are political constructs that developers need to work around,
not the other way around.  Olsan's names are not written in law anywhere
(that I know of).
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