Re: Improving support for timezones in Python (was: UTC "timezone" causing brain explosions)

2014-01-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > He also reinforces the message that UTC is the canonical timezone for > storing and manipulating timestamp values, and we should be converting > to/from those canonical values as early/late as possible in our programs. Call it a "UTC Sandwich",

Improving support for timezones in Python (was: UTC "timezone" causing brain explosions)

2014-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Time zones are a hairy beast to manage, made all the more difficult > because national politicians continually fiddle with them which means > they can't just be a built-in part of the Python standard library. PyCon 2013 had a good talk on calendaring and timezone issues http