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Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble

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Date 2015-06-30 17:01 +1000
Subject Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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Message-ID <mailman.181.1435647684.3674.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Peter Pearson
<pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> Time zones teem with sneaky software problems, and so does daylight-saving
> time, so this problem might strain my brain.  Maybe it's going to turn
> out that my expectations are unreasonable . . . as in, "Well, smarty pants,
> how do you want the axis labelled when the abscissas straddle the
> beginning of daylight-saving time?"  I'll research and digest.

That's entirely possible. Even more so if you go across some other
civil time change - if you look at the history of timezones in tzdata,
there's no end of messes as different places adopted standard time,
redefined standard time, and unified with someone else's standard
time. And some of that happened relatively recently.

UTC is much easier for this kind of thing. Especially if the
granularity of your data lets you ignore leap seconds.

ChrisA

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Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 00:56 +0000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-30 04:03 +0200
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 04:57 +0000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-30 12:11 +1000
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 04:49 +0000
      Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-30 17:01 +1000
        Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-06-30 16:42 +0000
          Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 02:55 +1000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-01 05:50 +0000
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 17:15 +1000
      Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-01 16:36 +0000
        Re: Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 10:55 -0600
          Re: Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-01 19:09 +0000
        Re: Datetime timezone trouble (was: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-02 03:08 +1000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-07-04 07:29 +0300
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble [SOLVED] Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-04 17:37 +0000
  Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2015-07-09 19:50 +0000
    Re: Matplotlib X-axis timezone trouble Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-07-10 16:15 +0000

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