Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)

[Mark H Harris]

On 3/25/14 12:48 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Yup. Welcome to timezones. I'm UTC +11 here, although we'll drop back
> to +10 shortly as DST finishes (yay!). It's currently 0547 UTC, so
> you're presumably five hours behind UTC, which would put you east
> coast USA, most likely. (Especially since your mailer is putting the
> dates as mm/dd/yy, which is an abomination peculiar to Americans.)

No, we're already DST; so we're normally UTC -6, now  UTC -5. We're CDST 
Minnesota (Southeast)

Its entirely weird working with people all over the world in seconds 
24-7 365 (we're on one tiny planet, you know?)

marcus