[Zope3-dev] Can we remove ZopeLegacy for now?
Anthony Baxter
Anthony Baxter <anthony@ekit-inc.com>
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:49:48 +1100
>>> "Tim Peters" wrote
> [Wade Leftwich]
> > Cheer up, Tim. In Newfoundland they run their clocks three and a
> > half hours behind GMT.
>
> Ya, and I'm told that Chatham Island, New Zealand, is GMT + 12 hours and 45
> minutes. Unfortunately for me, 3.5 and 12.75 are both exactly representable
> as binary floats -- even an infant couldn't make a mistake with simple
> fractions like that <wink>.
Prior to the big conference that standardised timezones, individual
cities had their own time offsets - they varied by individual minutes
and seconds.
I'm assuming that the timezone objects won't try to get this correct for
historical datetimes :)
Anthony
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