How about a calendar entry: I've got six people in places all over the world to get on the phone together. If the app doesn't know their notion of a time zone, that will never happen.<br><br>How about financial transactions: time-stamping transactions that move around the world seems pretty useful to me. How do I know when said transaction started if I can't convert the user's time into the server's time?
<br><br>Timezone is just another localization setting. It is no different than language or keyboard layout. It is a piece of data that describes the "world" the user lives in. Unfortunately, DST makes them very complex because DST is determined by the country and can change from year to year. I think the US' DST change this year had more of a real-world impact than Y2K (of course, people actually planned for Y2K, but that is a different story :).
<br><br>tj<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">J. Clifford Dyer</b> <<a href="mailto:jcd@sdf.lonestar.org">jcd@sdf.lonestar.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:13:24PM -0700, <a href="mailto:mensanator@aol.com">mensanator@aol.com</a> wrote regarding Re: pytz has so many timezones!:<br>><br>> On Oct 8, 1:03 pm, Carsten Haese <<a href="mailto:cars...@uniqsys.com">
cars...@uniqsys.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 10:41 -0700, <a href="mailto:mensana...@aol.com">mensana...@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>> > > For example, Windows has seperate listings for<br>> >
<br>> > > Central America<br>> > > Central Time (US & Canada)<br>> > > Guadalahara, Mexico City, Monterry - New<br>> > > Guadalahara, Mexico City, Monterry - Old<br>> > > Saskatchewan
<br>> ><br>> > > but they are all GMT-6<br>> ><br>> > But they could have different rules for Daylight Saving Time.<br>><br>> Which only matters if you're setting your clock.<br>><br>
<br>Maybe this is where I'm not understanding you: Do you have another use for setting a timezone? The only thing a time zone does, as far as I can tell, is set clocks relative to a shared conception of time.<br><br>
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