On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:30:04 +0200, Xavier Morel
On 2012-09-30, at 15:15 , Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:10:06 +0200 Dirkjan Ochtman
wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Antoine Pitrou
wrote: Can't we simply include the Olson database in Windows installers?
We probably can, but the problem is that it's updated quite often (for example, in 2011, there were about 14 releases; in 2009, there were 21). So you'd want to have a mechanism to override the data that is included in the stdlib.
Probably, but for most purposes I would guess a 2-year old database is still good enough? After all, you don't see many people complaining about the outdated Unicode database that is hard-wired in past Pythons.
But at worst, an outdated unicode database will be missing data right?
Doesn't an outdated timezone db have the risk of returning *incorrect* data?
Yes. And the timezeone database is much more volatile than the unicode database. The changes are, after all, driven almost entirely by politics. --David