[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> > priority:
> >   1) api call supplying tz data to the process.
> >   2) pytzdata module if it exists
> >   3) tz data from the underlying operating system
> >   4) error.
>
> I disagree on this order, at least for Linux systems. the tzdata database
> is
> well managed on major Linux distributions and should be used for this
> reason.
>

Sure, but in the cases where it is not, overriding should be possible. The
OS tz data is last because it is the default.

//Lennart
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