[DB-SIG] Standardized Date-Time class

[Bill Tutt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	mwm@contessa.phone.net [SMTP:mwm@contessa.phone.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 09, 1997 4:13 PM
> To:	db-sig@python.org
> Subject:	Re: [DB-SIG] Standardized Date-Time class
> 
> 
> I don't know who's C library routines you're using, but the ones
> shipped as part of most Unix sytsems are pretty robust. I haven't
> checked the GNU version, but I suspect that they're based on the code
> that Sun released to the public in '87, which is what most Unix
> systems use. These include the ability to externally specify TZ tables
> that vary from year to year & locale, and manage to capture such
> oddities as Arizona not doing DST at all, and Hawaii having one day of
> DST in 1933.
> 
> 	<mike
> 
That's not the only odd things happening...
For a good laugh read your closest zoneinfo source files... 
People have done really bizzare things with timezones.

Bill


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