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

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Mon Oct 1 10:28:11 CEST 2012

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't want to default to a database that is guaranteed to be out of date. I don't see the purpose. This is also why I'm skeptical at including the data on Windows.

I think that would be a little too pure to be practical. There are many practical usages of tz data that would work fine with a year-old timezone database.

Personally, I'd want to not ship any tzdata with non-Windows Python packages on the assumption that they have good up-to-date OS tzdata (or it should be easy to disable it in the configure phase). Also, I wonder if it would be possible to select the copy of the data that is the most recent (e.g. on Unix, pick the OS version if tzupdate is installed but older than the OS version).

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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