chobas.com's blog » python http://chobas.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:08:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Labor Day http://chobas.com/blog/2009/09/07/labor-day/ http://chobas.com/blog/2009/09/07/labor-day/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:34:49 +0000 Thomas http://chobas.com/blog/?p=797 …has spent more time than I’d care to admit this weekend fighting with python’s compete and utter lack of timezone support. Please add this to the list of reasons why I hate python. And please don’t waste my time with “you should just use <insert third party library here>”. They all suck too.

If I have a timestamp with a f*ing -0400 or EDT in it, you should know perfectly how to convert it into epoch! There is no excuse for that shit. If I have to tell you that EDT == UTC-4, you fail. Doubly fail if you silently throw away timezone information, or well you can just read this and this. At least I’m not the only one…

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