[Python-Dev] Add UTC to 2.7 (PyCon sprint idea)

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 13:05,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>    Maybe an alternate sprint idea would be to incorporate dateutil into the
>    Python core: http://labix.org/python-dateutil
>
> Whoops...  (just waking up - still need that first cup of coffee)
>
> While incorporating dateutil into the core would be nice (in my opinion at
> least), I was really thinking of pytz: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/

I think dateutil is fairly heavy for the stdlib, but I think pytz
would be a very good candidate for inclusion. Without it, the timezone
support in datetime is hardly usable.

I'd be happy to participate in a PyCon sprint to get datetime issues
sorted out and/or work on pytz inclusion.

Cheers,

Dirkjan