On Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 04:53, Laura Creighton wrote: > But this is not quite the complete story. In many (most?) places in > Saskatchewan, the rule is understood differently. Instead of 'we keep > to CST all year long' is is understood that 'we keep central time in > the winter and mountain time in the summer'.
As far as I know, the position of the tzdata people is that while this belief is held almost everywhere that does not observe DST but is surrounded by places that do (I should know; I live in Indiana, which was such a place until 2006), almost nowhere does it have any formal legitimacy, and systems that use the data therefore, by design, will not actually generate "CST/MDT" timestamps. When exactly is this transition supposed to take place? At 2AM, Manitoba springs forward, but Alberta remains on MST for another hour - nowhere else in North America *but* Saskatchewan uses an offset of -06:00 for this hour-long period. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
