Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Brett Cannon <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > 1. Call it FixedTimezone or something (remember it has to be CapWords). I thought consistency within module trumps PEP 8 naming standards. The datetime module (for better or worse) uses lowercase names for its types: date, time, datetime, tzinfo. Shouldn't the new type follow the suit? (This will also avoid a source of typos TimeZone vs. TimeZone). I don't like "fixed timezone" - it is not clear what it is fixed: offset, geographical location or historical set of rules. I think we should promote the notion that timezone is just an offset. EST is -5 hours, EDT is -4. New York uses EST in winter and EDT in summer. A zoneinfo database (external to python) is a mapping from place and time to timezone. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5094> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
