[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements - Update

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Sat Dec 29 15:29:54 CET 2012


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> I'm still a fan of *always* shipping fallback tzdata, regardless of
>> platform. The stdlib would then look in three places for timezone data
>> when datetime.timezone was first imported:
>>
>> 1. the "tzdata-update" database
>> 2. the OS provided database
>> 3. the fallback database
>
> +1 !

Yeah, from me as well.

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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