Re: timezone argument %z and %Z

2014-08-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > You should also be aware that the abbreviations do not always uniquely > identify a time zone. For example, "EST" is used in both North America > (-0500) and Australia (+1000). It's usually better just to use time zone > offsets to avoid this sor

Re: timezone argument %z and %Z

2014-08-16 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > problem 1: > > There are 24 time zone in the world, does any time zone has the time > > zone name such as EST,CST ? > > Are there 24 time zone abbreviations in python ?what are other 22 > > except for EST ,CST ? > > There are *many* time

Re: timezone argument %z and %Z

2014-08-15 Thread Ben Finney
luofeiyu writes: > In my system : win7+ python3.4 . AFAIK, Microsoft's Windows OS does not provide correct standard timezones for programmers. They provide only proprietary data, which do not match the international standard time zones. You will need to install timezone support specifically for