[docs] [issue9305] Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation

Alexander Belopolsky report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jul 20 18:18:37 CEST 2010


Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> Interesting.  I actually like the original wording better.  For me,
> "my watch is 6 hours behind UTC" makes it clear that when the Big Ben
> clock shows tea time (18:00), my watch displays noon (17:00 - 6:00 =
> 12:00.)

I was too excited to add Alice in Wonderland humor to my post that did
not get the math right. :-)

The above should read 18:00 - 6:00 = 12:00, of course.  Or was it five
o'clock after all?

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