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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:35:23 -0500

> A cross-platform time zone facility isn't a problem - the data we need is > available and maintained as part of numerous free Unix distributions. We > could even steal C code to decode it if we are particularly lazy.

-1 Why bloat the Python distribution with yet another locale implementation ?

Agreed. This should be a 3rd party add-on. (Especially since in many cases, tzset() does all you need.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)