Re: [Datetime-SIG] Clearing up terminology
On 7/30/2015 10:48, ISAAC J SCHWABACHER wrote:
Australia/Melbourne is a time zone, +1000 is an offset, and EST is an accident waiting to happen.
ijs
Australia/Melbourne is the *Olsan name* for a time zone. +1000 is the current legal definition of that timezone in terms of a GMT offset, EST is the common name of one of many timezones, likely US Eastern Standard Time, but could be one of many. Timezones are political constructs that developers need to work around, not the other way around. Olsan's names are not written in law anywhere (that I know of).
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Australia/Melbourne is a time zone, +1000 is an offset, and EST is an accident waiting to happen.
ijs
Australia/Melbourne is the *Olsan name* for a time zone. +1000 is the current legal definition of that timezone in terms of a GMT offset, EST is the common name of one of many timezones, likely US Eastern Standard Time, but could be one of many. Timezones are political constructs that developers need to work around, not the other way around. Olsan's names are not written in law anywhere (that I know of). _______________________________________________ Datetime-SIG mailing list Datetime-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/datetime-sig The PSF Code of Conduct applies to this mailing list: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Alexander Walters
EST is the common name of one of many timezones, likely US Eastern Standard Time, but could be one of many.
You are the third person on this list who saw $ TZ=Australia/Melbourne date +"%c%z" Thu 30 Jul 2015 10:21:18 AM EST+1000 and decided that EST is "likely US Eastern Standard Time." And neither of the following two facts have stopped you: 1. Melbourne is in Australia, not in the US. 2. The DST is in effect in the Eastern US in July.
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ISAAC J SCHWABACHER