in 714281 20140110 090409 Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:31:11 +0000, Bob Martin wrote: > >> in 714232 20140109 120741 Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >>>On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:17:25 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: >>> >>>> On 09/01/2014 04:14, Chris Angelico wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben Finney >>>>> <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> I'm approaching it with the goal of knowing better what I'm talking >>>>>> about when I advocate scrapping the whole DST system :-) >>>>> >>>>> I would definitely support the scrapping of DST. I'm less sure that >>>>> we need exactly 24 timezones around the world, though. It's not >>>>> nearly as big a problem to have the half-hour and quarter-hour >>>>> timezones - though it would be easier if timezone were strictly an >>>>> integer number of hours. But DST is the real pain. >>>>> >>>>> What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't >>>>> handle DST. I run an international Dungeons and Dragons campaign (we >>>>> play online, and new players are most welcome, as are people >>>>> watching!), and the Aussies (myself included) know to check UTC time, >>>>> the Brits and Europeans check UTC or just know what UTC is, and the >>>>> Americans say "Doesn't that happen at 8 o'clock Eastern time?" and >>>>> get confused. >>>>> I don't understand this. Are my players drawn exclusively from the >>>>> pool of people who've never worked with anyone in Arizona [1]? Yes, >>>>> I'm stereotyping a bit here, and not every US player has had problems >>>>> with this, but it's the occasional US player who knows to check, and >>>>> the rare European, British, or Aussie player who doesn't. >>>>> >>>>> In any case, the world-wide abolition of DST would eliminate the >>>>> problem. The only remaining problem would be reminding people to >>>>> change the batteries in their smoke detectors. >>>>> >>>>> ChrisA >>>>> >>>>> [1] For those who aren't right up on timezone trivia, AZ has no DST. >>>>> Similarly the Australian state of Queensland does not shift its >>>>> clocks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I remember this "From February 1968 to November 1971 the UK kept >>>> daylight saving time throughout the year mainly for commercial >>>> reasons, especially regarding time conformity with other European >>>> countries". My source >>>> http://www.timeanddate.com/time/uk/time-zone-background.html >>> >>>we dont have "Daylight saving time" we switch between GMT (Greenwich >>>Mean Time) and BST (British Summer Time) at some point in the past we >>>have also used DST (Double Summer Time). >> >> British Summer Time *is* Daylight Saving Time. > >My point is in the UK we have never refered to it as Daylight saving Time >that is an Americanism :-)
Sorry, but you are wrong again! Just Google it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
