Re: [Python-ideas] lack of time zone support

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 18:18, Bill Janssen wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote:

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First of all, there will never be a timezone table in the stdlib, period. This has been brought up before and is always shot down because python-dev does not want to have to keep track of timezone changes. pytz and other modules fit that bill fine.

Sure, sure.  Though I'm not sure that it has to be "in" the standard library to be part of the standard library.  Past time for CPython to start thinking about on-demand data, pulled dynamically from "the cloud", with a static version for backup.  Just a thought...

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Now if you want UTC, that's different. Alexander already linked to an issue that is discussing that end. The current proposal is to provide a generic class that creates fixed UTC-offset timezones, with an instance for UTC set on the datetime module.

Yes, I've been following that.  Very promising.

Just need a patch. =)

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If you get that class in, you could then patch _strptime to support the %z directive so as to return a timezone that had a set UTC-offset. Not optimal, but it's something.

Yes, exactly.

Then that's fine. Get the fixed offset timezone in and then get a patch for this and I don't see resistance.