[Datetime-SIG] Timezone database

[Felipe Ochoa]

[Branching from The BDFL's take]

There are a few additional issues which I'm not sure are included in this
> discussion or not:
> - A unified API for accessing an up-to-date timezone database. This has
> been discussed in the past, and we couldn't find a solution that satisfied
> all requirements (the main problem being different platform expectations
> IIRC), but it's probably worth it trying again.


The current solution proposed in the PEP is to have platforms
with /usr/share/zoneinfo use that as long as they want. For other platforms
Python would ship with a built-in copy (roughly speaking) of the database.
There would then be separate tzdata-update package on pypi that can be `pip
install`ed to update the timezone database whenever the user feels the need
to do so (because /usr/share/zoneinfo is no longer receiving updates or
because it doesn't exist)

What are the unsatisfied requirements of this design?
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