[Zope] insane Central Daylight Time, Zope 2.2.2

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:26:48 +0200 (CEST)


Brian Lloyd writes:
 > :( The problem is that DT is probably trying to do too much with
 > magical timezone recognition. At some point, some bonehead (and
 > I suspect it probably was me) accepted a request to add CDT to
 > the mapping without noticing that it is a good example of an
 > ambiguous timezone name.
 > 
 > The problem now is how to fix it - we could change it to mean
 > 'CDT' (american central daylight time), but I suspect I'll then
 > get another bug report from somewhere in Europe telling me that
 > now its broken for them :(
I never heard of "CDT" as a synonym for "GMT+2".

The official timezone name of central Europe is "CET" or "CEST" (daylight
saving), replacing the older "MET" and "MEST".


Dieter