On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> but I happen to know its offset is 0 (i.e. GMT). > > As further fuel for your hatred: GMT is not the same thing as UTC+0, and > never has been. (See the definitions of those two separate timezones for > more; Wikipedia's articles are probably a good start.)
For most people's purposes, GMT and UTC are equivalent. I tell people that my D&D sessions are Sundays from 2:00 UTC to roughly 6:00-7:00 UTC, and if they treat that as GMT, they're not going to miss the session. It's a lot better than a mess of "local time" with DST. Timezones aren't a problem. Daylight/Summer time (or Ireland's alternative, Winter time) is. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
