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

[Tres Seaver]

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On 12/29/2012 01:00 AM, Nick Coghlan 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

- -Lots for enabling fallback by default except on platforms known not to
have their own database, or given some explicit 'siteconfigure.py'-like
knob enabling it.  A clean error is better than a bad-but-silent answer.


Tres.
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