On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:18 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:53:14 -0500, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com > declaimed the following: > > >On 2021-09-01 at 07:32:43 +1000, > >Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If we could abolish DST world-wide, life would be far easier. All the > >> rest of it would be easy enough to handle. > > > >Agreed. > > > > Unfortunately, most of the proposals in the US seem to be that > /standard time/ would be abolished, and DST would rule year-round. Hence > putting the center of the time zone one hour off from solar mean noon; > which is what the time zones were originally based upon. >
I'd be fine with that, honestly. It's a bit 'off', but it isn't THAT big a deal. If some city in the US decides that it wants its timezone to be a few hours AHEAD of UTC, more power to them, just as long as it's consistent year-round. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
