[Python-Dev] PEP 495 Was: PEP 498: Literal String Interpolation is ready for pronouncement

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 17:47:08 CEST 2015


On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a sane & easy sufficient condition.  It's a waste of time to
> worry about minimal necessary conditions.  "Convert to UTC' is the
> obvious way to do darned near everything.  Converting to any other
> fixed-offset zone would do just as well, but _that_ observation is
> also a waste of time, since "convert to UTC" is just as easy ;-)

So it isn't sufficient for them all to be in, say,
Australia/Melbourne, which observes DST. Fair enough. And yeah,
converting to UTC is straightforward enough.

ChrisA


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