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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Oct 1 19:54:54 CEST 2012

On 10/1/2012 12:39 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org_ _<mailto:larry at hastings.org>> wrote:

On 10/01/2012 04:29 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: Using the script I mentioned in an different response, if someone installed the database to some location (TBD), then there would probably be a config file sitting next to it. A simple .ini file with an 'enable' flag would be needed to turn on the override. Perhaps said config file could also contain the timestamp of the tz database? Then we could intelligently choose the most currentest one.

The most current one is likely to be the one provided by the operating system, which does not contain any .ini file, nor, as far as I can tell, any information about the database version or any timestamps.

But Windows does not provide one, or at least, the proposal seems to be not use whatever it does have. I think your PEP should propose one api but conditional tz db access code for systems with and without the tz db already provided.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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