[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