On 2014-08-18, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > By working with dates far enough in the past that the modern time zone > rules don't apply. Some experimentation determines that the timedelta > between Shanghai and Urumqi goes from 136 minutes to 120 minutes in > 1928, and then from 120 minutes to 0 minutes in 1980.
Thanks to politicians who keep mucking about with such things as a way to appear busy while still avoiding doing anything useful, it's no small feat to handle current timezones correctly. Expecting them to work for dates/times from long ago is pretty much beyond the pale. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
