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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:35:36 +1100
Subject: Re: Improving support for timezones in Python (was: UTC "timezone" causing brain explosions)
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> He also reinforces the message that UTC is the canonical timezone for
> storing and manipulating timestamp values, and we should be converting
> to/from those canonical values as early/late as possible in our programs.

Call it a "UTC Sandwich", like Ned Batchelder's "Unicode Sandwich".
It's a good idea for the same reason.

ChrisA