On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro@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

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 would not be aware that the database quickly becomes outdated and would not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