Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:24 PM, anatoly techtonik <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > As for offtopic UTC vs GMT - I doubt there is a way to clearly express that > the offset sign of the > returned values is negated in comparison with real "UTC offsets" without > resorting to some > king of alternative east/west scale. Sure there is. Here is how RFC 3339 handles this: """ Numeric offsets are calculated as "local time minus UTC". So the equivalent time in UTC can be determined by subtracting the offset from the local time. """ and here is a quote from MacOS man page for tzset: """ offset Indicates the value one must add to the local time to arrive at Coor- dinated Universal Time. """ No geographic reference needed. (And the issue is not UTC vs. GMT: both UTC and GMT are timescales, sometimes even considered the same. The off-topic issue is UTC vs. Prime Meridian.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7229> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com