in 714232 20140109 120741 Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:17:25 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> On 09/01/2014 04:14, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> >>> wrote: >>>> I'm approaching it with the goal of knowing better what I'm talking >>>> about when I advocate scrapping the whole DST system :-) >>> >>> I would definitely support the scrapping of DST. I'm less sure that we >>> need exactly 24 timezones around the world, though. It's not nearly as >>> big a problem to have the half-hour and quarter-hour timezones - >>> though it would be easier if timezone were strictly an integer number >>> of hours. But DST is the real pain. >>> >>> What I find, most of the time, is that it's Americans who can't handle >>> DST. I run an international Dungeons and Dragons campaign (we play >>> online, and new players are most welcome, as are people watching!), >>> and the Aussies (myself included) know to check UTC time, the Brits and >>> Europeans check UTC or just know what UTC is, and the Americans say >>> "Doesn't that happen at 8 o'clock Eastern time?" and get confused. >>> I don't understand this. Are my players drawn exclusively from the pool >>> of people who've never worked with anyone in Arizona [1]? Yes, >>> I'm stereotyping a bit here, and not every US player has had problems >>> with this, but it's the occasional US player who knows to check, and >>> the rare European, British, or Aussie player who doesn't. >>> >>> In any case, the world-wide abolition of DST would eliminate the >>> problem. The only remaining problem would be reminding people to change >>> the batteries in their smoke detectors. >>> >>> ChrisA >>> >>> [1] For those who aren't right up on timezone trivia, AZ has no DST. >>> Similarly the Australian state of Queensland does not shift its clocks. >>> >>> >> I remember this "From February 1968 to November 1971 the UK kept >> daylight saving time throughout the year mainly for commercial reasons, >> especially regarding time conformity with other European countries". My >> source http://www.timeanddate.com/time/uk/time-zone-background.html > >we dont have "Daylight saving time" we switch between GMT (Greenwich Mean >Time) and BST (British Summer Time) at some point in the past we have >also used DST (Double Summer Time).
British Summer Time *is* Daylight Saving Time. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
