Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!roy From: Roy Smith Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Time zones and why they change so damned often (was: the Gravity of Python 2) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:49:51 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <78d91$52cbf8e9$541826b9$29485@cache1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> <4b702$52cc262e$541826b9$22985@cache80.multikabel.net> <4cbf$52cc2e82$541826b9$11761@cache70.multikabel.net> <686$52cd4640$541826b9$21896@cache1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl> <7wvbxteskh.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <7wr48hernb.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1389401392 7316 127.0.0.1 (11 Jan 2014 00:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:49:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63677 In article , Peter Pearson wrote: > Around 30 years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece > advocating the abandonment of time zones and the unification of the > globe into a single glorious time zone. After enumerating the > efficiencies to be achieved by this system, the writer briefly > addressed the question of whose time zone would become the global > standard, promptly arriving at the conclusion that, due to the > concentration of important commerce, the logical choice was the > east coast of the United States. 30 years ago, that would have been a plausible choice. Today, not so much.