In a message of Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:27:30 -0500, Tim Peters writes: >Hi, Laura! By "zoneinfo" here, we mean the IANA (aka "Olson") time >zone database, which is ubiquitous on (at least) Linux: > > https://www.iana.org/time-zones > >So "will a wrapping of zoneinfo handle XYZ?" isn't so much a question >about the wrapping as about what's in the IANA database.
Then we had better be able to override it when it is wrong. >Best guess is that Creighton's rules are covered by that database's >America/Winnipeg entries. ># Saskatchewan ># Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. ># Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton ># are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. I think that this will work. Creighton is just across the border from Flin Flan, Manitoba. Indeed I think the problem of 'drunken people from Manitoba trying to get one hours more drinking done and being a menace on the highway' may have fueled the 'we are going to have DST in violation of the law' movement in Creighton. But I am not sure how it is that a poor soul who just wants to print a railway schedule 'in local time' is supposed to know that Creighton is using Winnipeg time. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
