[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 01:07:35 CEST 2012

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:

On 30.09.2012 20:18, Gregory P. Smith wrote:

priority: 1) api call supplying tz data to the process. 2) pytzdata module if it exists 3) tz data from the underlying operating system 4) error. I disagree on this order, at least for Linux systems. the tzdata database is well managed on major Linux distributions and should be used for this reason.

There's no guarantee that an individual sysadmin will have OS updates up-to-date. If, on Linux, the pytzdata module is not installed unless explicitly called for, that would define pytzdata as high specificity, ergo it should override the lower specificity of the OS-provided data.

The normal case on Linux will happily use the well-managed and frequently-updated tzdata.

ChrisA

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