[Zope3-dev] Re: Formatting of Created/Modified times

[Shane Hathaway]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>FWIW: This is just the kind of thing that a "locale" service might be 
>>responsible for.  Site managers should be able to visit the locale 
>>service and choose whether to display times in local time or UTC, what 
>>date and time fomats to use, which day is the first day of the week, 
>>currency formats, etc.
> 
> Locale is about cultural differences e.g. what language to use, etc.
> 
> The timezone is not part of the locale.  Many locales span timezones,
> and vice versa.  Example: I like to use the Dutch locale sometimes,
> but I rarely like to use the Dutch timezone (except when to know
> whether it's safe to call my family over there :-).

Oops, you're right.  Never mind.

Shane