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

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 19:29:57 CET 2012

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote: > Happy Holidays! Here is the update of PEP 431 with the changes that emerged > after the earlier discussion. > > A raw download is here: > https://raw.github.com/regebro/tz-pep/master/pep-04tz.txt

For UI purposes, "pytz" has some helpers to get lists of timezone names (all, common and country specific): http://pytz.sourceforge.net/#helpers

Funnily enough, I woke up this morning thinking that this should be added, and wondering why pytz didn't have such lists. So I just missed (or rather forgot) that they existed. I'll add them.

Is there a specific reason you chose to exclude those from the PEP?

> 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 would not be aware that the database quickly becomes outdated and would not 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

Yes, and I did update the rest of the PEP with this, but I missed the discussion part.

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