On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 12/11/2013 16:12, Tim Chase wrote: >> >> On 2013-11-12 17:57, Ferrous Cranus wrote: >>> >>> > Best practices say to move the value from local time to UTC as >>> > soon as possible, then store/use the UTC time internally for all >>> > operations. Only when it's about to be presented to the user >>> > should you convert it back to local time if you need to. >>> >>> or perhaps by confiruing the timezone of the server to use Greece's >>> TimeZone by issuing a linux command? >> >> >> Regardless of the server's configured TZ, best practice still says to >> normalize everything to UTC (ESPECIALLY if Greece uses the >> abomination of DST that we suffer here in the US) as soon as >> possible and keep it that way for as long as possible. >> > FTR, the countries in the EU all change at the same (UTC) time. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
In the US, the state of Indiana is really weird. Three separate time zone areas, that don't all flip in the same way. See this for TZ hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_time_zones -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
