I have the pytz package but it doesn't know about non-standard timezone
names like CDT5 or CST6. I can obviously infer that they are either
five or six hours behind UTC. Are they constructed in some standard way so
that I can assume that if a timezone name is not known to pytz I can assume
the
This may not answer your question directly, but have you thought about
ingoring the number at the end of these non-standard timezones? CDT is
Central Daylight-saving Timezone, while CST is Central Standard Timezone.
And you are correct they are -5 and -6 hours respectively. Does pytz know
about
Does pytz know about CDT and CST?
Nope...
Skip
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Would it hurt if you put in some extra information?
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/
HTH,
-Xav
P.S: You, sir, have an awesome first name.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote:
Does pytz know about CDT and CST?
Nope...
Skip
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Would it hurt if you put in some extra information?
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/
In theory, no. At work we still use the ancient Rogue Wave C++
libraries in a number of applications. It has hard-coded timezone
info so when the US changed the start and end of
