[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Dec 29 11:45:45 CET 2012

On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:00:39 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Discussion > ========== > > Should the windows installer include the data package? > ------------------------------------------------------ > > It has been suggested that the Windows installer should include the data > package. This would mean that an explicit installation no longer would be > needed on Windows. On the other hand, that would mean that many using > Windows > would not be aware that the database quickly becomes outdated and would not > keep it updated. I'm still a fan of always shipping fallback tzdata, regardless of platform. The stdlib would then look in three places for timezone data when datetime.timezone was first imported: 1. the "tzdata-update" database 2. the OS provided database 3. the fallback database

+1 !

Regards

Antoine.

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