Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > With time zones, as with text encodings, there is a single > > technically elegant solution (for text: Unicode; for time zones: > > twelve simple, static zones that never change) > > Twelve or twenty-four?
Twenty-four time zones, yes. My mistake. I'm currently reading <URL:http://savingthedaylight.com/> David Prerau's _Saving the Daylight: Why We Put The Clocks Forward_. It's got an acknowledged bias, that DST is overall a good thing; I disagree strongly with that position. But it's also very well researched and engagingly written. Not only does it explain the motivations and history of the present system of Daylight Shifting Time (or, as the world misleadingly calls it, Daylight “Saving” Time), it goes into the history that pre-dates that system and led to the system of time zones at all. I'm approaching it with the goal of knowing better what I'm talking about when I advocate scrapping the whole DST system :-) -- \ “Only the educated are free.” —Epictetus, _Discourses_ | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
