[Zope] strftime and timezone

[Dieter Maurer]

Hong Yuan wrote at 2005-3-18 11:26 +0800:
> ...
[DM]
>>The easiest way would be to use a different (and unique) notation for
>>your timezone, e.g. "GMT+8".
>>  
>>
>Well, it turns out not to be so easy. I found that even a notation like 
>"GMT+8" is not unique in meaning, see 
>http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-5189/6je7g4sr7?a=view. It can mean 
>8 hours east of GMT, or 8 hours west of GMT!!! And again zope DateTime 
>seems to interprete this differently than the Linux operation system.

Apparently, it is very simple to make simple things extremely
complex...

I noted a second option in my previous message -- this you see it?

-- 
Dieter