[Python-Dev] PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Tue Apr 10 01:42:35 CEST 2012


On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com>wrote:

On Apr 7, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

In any case, NTP is not the only thing that adjusts the clock, e.g. the operating system will adjust the time for daylight savings.

Daylight savings time is not a clock adjustment, at least not in the sense this thread has mostly been talking about the word "clock". It doesn't affect the "seconds from epoch" measurement, it affects the way in which the clock is formatted to the user. -glyph

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