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

[Lennart Regebro]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 23:46,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
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>    Lennart> The timezone database is updated several times per year. You
>    Lennart> can *not* include it in the standard library.
>
> My guess is the data are updated several times per year, not the code.  Can
> they not be separated?

Yes, but that would mean we have an implementation in stdlib that
relies on a dataset which may not exist. That is just going to be
confusing. Moving pytz into the stdlib doesn't solve anything, really.
So why do it? It's not like pytz is hard to install.

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