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

[Tres Seaver]

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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/

Because timezones are defined politically, they change frequently.  pytz
is released frequently (multiple times per year) to accomodate those
changes:  I can't see any way to preserve that flexibility if the
package were part of stdlib.


Tres.
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