[Zope] insane Central Daylight Time, Zope 2.2.2

[Anthony Baxter]

Using the short form of timezone names (e.g. "EST", "PST", &c.) is a
good way to get yourself really, really, _really_ confused. Use the
fuller 'Australia/Victoria' or 'United States/Pacific' forms.

Or just use UTC/GMT. If your system writes down any records with 
datestamps in them, you may find horrible things happen to you as
you switch on and off daylight savings.

Anthony

>>> Tim Cook wrote
> Brian Lloyd wrote:
> > 
> > > >:( 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.
> > >
> > > Not a solution, but for part of the history, see
> > > http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-April/000323.html where
> > > Martijn Pieters writes about a change to DT
> > 
> > Hmm - ok then, (because there is no specific defender
> > of 'CDT' - the mapping was copied from some perl library) I
> > propose to just remove it altogether
> > (in which case the right thing should happen for both cases).
> > 
> > Could you do a quick test and verify if things are sane for you
> > if 'CDT' is simply removed from the mapping?
> 
> CDT is not ambiguous at least in the US <g>. I think there was
> just a mistake made in the map. Didn't Dieter report that the two
> designations for Central European Time are CET & CEST?
> 
> 
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