the Gravity of Python 2

[Piet van Oostrum]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> [ a bunch of stuff that I totally agree with ]
>
> No response needed here :)
>
> So I was wrong on the specific example of .today(), but asking the
> question the other way is at least helpful. Maybe the best solution is
> exactly what Roy already posted, or maybe there's some other way to
> achieve that. In any case, there is a solution, albeit not as clean as
> I would have liked.
>
>> With time zones, as with text encodings, there is a single technically
>> elegant solution (for text: Unicode; for time zones: twelve simple,
>> static zones that never change)
>
> Twelve or twenty-four? Or are you thinking we should all be an even
> number of hours away from UTC, which would also work?

Even 24 doesn't take into account DST.
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