On 4/2/2016 12:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Nowadays software companies and communities are international.
Grade school classrooms, especially pre-high school, are not. > You never know who needs to maintain your code. For one-off school assignments, nobody other than the author. > At work, I need to maintain code
that was created in Japan, with coworkers from all over the world. The Japanese author had had a hard time with English, and made some awkward naming choices, but had the common sense to use English-only names in his code.
Could not have been worse than semi-random ascii like x3tu9.
I also think log file timestamps should be expressed in UTC.
I agree. Any translation to local time should be in the viewer. I presume this is already true for email and news message timestamps.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
