[Python-Dev] Add UTC to 2.7 (PyCon sprint idea) (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Feb 16 17🔞42 CET 2010

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Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 16:26, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

Because timezones are defined politically, they change frequently. pytz is released frequently (multiple times per year) to accomodate those changes: I can't see any way to preserve that flexibility if the package were part of stdlib. By using what the OS provides. At least on Linux, the basic timezone data is usually updated by other means (at least on the distro I'm familiar with, it's updated quite often, too; through the package manager). I'm assuming Windows and OS X would also be able to provide something like this. I think pytz already looks at this data if it's available (precisely because it might well be newer).

If that were so, I don't think Stuart would be going to the trouble to re-release the library 6 - 12 times per year.

Tres. - --

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