[Python-Dev] PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Is it still? I thought they fixed that ages ago?
>

sadly, no.  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Apr 7, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >>
> >> In any case, NTP is not the only thing that adjusts the clock, e.g. the
> >> operating system will adjust the time for daylight savings.
> >>
> >>
> >> Daylight savings time is not a clock adjustment, at least not in the
> sense
> >> this thread has mostly been talking about the word "clock".  It doesn't
> >> affect the "seconds from epoch" measurement, it affects the way in
> which the
> >> clock is formatted to the user.
> >>
> >> -glyph
> >
> >
> > even on windows where the system hardware clock is maintained in local
> time?
> >
> >
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