[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/1/2012 12:39 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org
> <mailto:larry at hastings.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/01/2012 04:29 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>     Using the script I mentioned in an different response, if someone installed
>>     the database to some location (TBD), then there would probably be a config
>>     file sitting next to it.  A simple .ini file with an 'enable' flag would be
>>     needed to turn on the override.
>
>     Perhaps said config file could also contain the timestamp of the tz
>     database?  Then we could intelligently choose the most currentest one.
>
>
> The most current one is likely to be the one provided by the operating
> system, which does not contain any .ini file, nor, as far as I can tell,
> any information about the database version or any timestamps.

But Windows does not provide one, or at least, the proposal seems to be 
not use whatever it does have. I think your PEP should propose one api 
but conditional tz db access code for systems with and without the tz db 
already provided.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy