On Oct 8, 3:23 pm, "J. Clifford Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:12:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding > Re: pytz has so many timezones!: > > > [ I wrote ] > > > Reducing them to a single time zone will result in aberrant functionality > > > in one or more locales. > > > I would hardly think that's an issue on the user registration > > form the OP is trying to create. > > You don't think that it's an issue that the OPs users will complain about > their time being inaccurate? If I register in what we in the US call Eastern > Time Zone, I don't want to have to switch to Atlantic time zone just because > the form designer couldn't be bothered to include a time zone that actually > matched the function of the clocks in my area.
That wasn't my point. If you know you're in GMT-5 and your computer knows you're in GMT-5, why do you have to peruse a list of 400 choices, most of which don't match your GMT offset? > > Pedantry about the definition of a time zone is not going to win you points > with irate users. Fine. Then make the user scroll through 400 choices. See how many points that gets you. > > Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
