[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support.

[Lennart Regebro]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> That entirely depends on when you define to be "the start". It seems
> to me the consensus on python-dev has been that packages primarily
> evolve outside the stdlib; it seems a bit weird to then, at the time
> of stdlib inclusion, start changing the API.

But this bit of the API is there only as a hack, because stdlib does
not support is_dst. We are changing that. Hence those extra functions
are no longer needed.

//Lennart