[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support. (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Wed Dec 12 10:53:34 CET 2012

Am 12.12.2012 01:58, schrieb Nick Coghlan:

Ick, why a new module? Why not just add this directly to datetime? (It doesn't need to be provided by the C accelerator, it can go straight in the pure Python part).

+1 for something like datetime.timezone

How well does hg handle files renames? The datetime module could be converted to a package.

I'd prefer a more aggressive name for this like "tzdataoverride". My rationale is that *nix users need to thoroughly aware that if they install this package, they will stop benefiting from the automatic tz database updates provided by their OS (especially if they install it into the system site packages on a distro that has migrated to Python 3 for system tools).

+1, too.

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