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On 12/11/2013 16:12, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> Regardless of the server's configured TZ, best practice still says to
> normalize everything to UTC (ESPECIALLY if Greece uses the
> abomination of DST that we suffer here in the US) as soon as
> possible and keep it that way for as long as possible.
>
> -tkc
>
>

Why oh why do I have an image of people at Bletchley Park trying to 
switch Colossus from GMT to DOUBLE British Summer Time and back again?

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence