[Python-Dev] tzset (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon drifty@alum.berkeley.edu
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:40:16 -0800 (PST)

[Stuart Bishop]

> _I'm happy to rewrite the detection in configure.in and the test in_ > _testtime.py to lower the bar on this, but I think a better solution_ > _may be to determine if Windows has a format that lets us to DST_ > _calculations and keep the bar high. I was hoping that such a format_ > _would a) exist and b) Allow translation between the Unix standard of_ > _Country/Region to whatever-windows-uses._ > If there is one thing I have learned from writing _strptime is that you cannot be strict in the slightest for your input when it comes to time-based data. I think this is another case where you need to be loose about input and strict with output.

-Brett