Re: neglecting daylight savings

2010-11-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 11/11/2010 5:26 PM Neil Berg said... Hi Python community, I am trying to convert UTC to PST and want to neglect daylight savings even for the days that are in PDT, not PST. IIRC, that what Arizona time is. Why not use it instead of attempting to redefine PST? Emile -- http://mail.pyth

Re: neglecting daylight savings

2010-11-11 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Berg writes: > I am trying to convert UTC to PST and want to neglect daylight savings > even for the days that are in PDT, not PST. Then you don't want “PST”. That name entails all the rules of the time zone. If that's not what you want, don't ask timezone libraries for it. Similarly for t

neglecting daylight savings

2010-11-11 Thread Neil Berg
Hi Python community, I am trying to convert UTC to PST and want to neglect daylight savings even for the days that are in PDT, not PST. I simply want every UTC date to be pushed back by 8 hours and not worry about the days when the difference is really -7 due to daylight savings. I have writ