[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Donald Stufft]

> On Mar 6, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> 
>>> Which is the earlier time: 18:00:00 Australia/Melbourne, or 03:00:00
>>> America/New_York?
>> 
>> 
>> If you think of times of day as modular, then it doesn't
>> make sense to ask whether one is earlier than another.
> 
> It should be possible to ask if they're equal, at least. Are they?
> 
>> But to clarify my position: It's okay to attach a
>> timezone to a *time of day*. It's *not* okay to attach
>> a timezone to a *difference* between times of day.
> 
> What operations can you do on a time-of-day-with-timezone? Give me
> some examples, and I'll show you, with the above two examples, how
> quirky that can be.
> 

It's not an operation but a time object with a timezone is perfect for representing an event which occurs everyday at 11:30 EST

> ChrisA
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