[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[Matthias Klose]

On 01.10.2012 01:07, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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.

I don't care as long as pytzdata is a third party module. I do care if it
belongs to the standard library.

I don't want to see a python and perl/java/foo application seeing different
local times.

  Matthias