Re:Python Enhancement Proposal 495: Local Time Disambiguation
by danbruc on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:41AM
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You are always in the same time zone but the zone time changes. BST and GMT are not time zones - time zones are (usually) named by geographic features like large cities and is Europe/London in your case - but zone times. Therefore when entering or leaving daylight saving time you remain in the same time zone but the zone time of your time zone changes.
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Re:Python Enhancement Proposal 495: Local Time Disambiguation
by wyldfire on Friday August 21, 2015 @11:14AM
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It would be nice if those two things which have an important but very subtle distinction had names which were not just the reverse of each other. It seems like despite you explaining this, it would be very easy for one to mistake "zone time" for "time zone".