Is there any way for `datetime.isoformat()` to encode the IANA zone name of the datetime in question, rather than just an offset? #Python #datetime

Since, it is almost that time of year:

If you are in the U.S., are you for or against abolishing Daylight Saving Time (DST)?

Are there "names" for the different date time notations like
US: month, day, year
Europe: day, month, year
US: 12 hr with AM/PM
Other places : 24 hrs
Iso standard
Etc?

If there are names for these different notations maybe we could add them as Python enums and use the enum instead of constructing our own "%m %d %Y" whatever.

Wouldn't that be interesting? Might solve lots of bugs with wrong datetime format.

The Time Lords have a special torture chamber on Gallifrey for app developers that write apps, used cross timezones but dont properly store timezone data.
#timezone #datetime #dev #programming #utc #doctorwho #timelords

There's an xkcd for everything!
...and in this case, it's ringing very true https://instantiator.dev/post/covid-volunteer-data/
#DataScience #Timestamps #DateTime #xkcd

@derickr Hey Derick is there a chance that a native H:M:S to decimal hours converter could be added to the #datetime functions in #PHP ?

It is quite a common activity for calculating someones pay to go from 3h45m -> 3.75 h (mulitplied by $/h)

https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.datetime.php

Is it possible to get a zoneinfo.ZoneInfo key (i.e.: IANA tzdb identifier) for the current system timezone, in Python? `datetime.now(timezone.utc).astimezone().` gives a potentially ambiguous 'tzname' and 'utcoffset' which make it difficult to communicate long-term time intervals to other systems