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jladasky at itu.edu
Fri Dec 23 14:51:11 EST 2016
On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 5:57:42 PM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 12:54 PM, <j... at itu.edu> wrote:
> > Wouldn't most users prefer that modern time zones be the default information returned by pytz, instead of 150 year-old historical time zones?
>
> They're the *same* time zones.
>
> ChrisA
Apparently, they're not quite the same. The four-minute discrepancy between New York local (mean solar?) time and the modern time zone is what got Skip Montanaro asking questions.
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