[Pythonmac-SIG] TZ and Plone.

[Aahz]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011, Tuladhar-douglas, Dr William B. wrote:
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> I'm trying to install Plone 4.05 on my Mac (OSX 10.6.7), using the universal installer which uses buildout. (It works fine on the London server that holds the public Plone site...) After much frustration I finally found another person with the same obscure problem, also in Kathmandu. See here:http://bibekpaudel.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/solved-plone-installation-strange-error/ , here: http://www.khattam.info/solved-module-datetime-datetime-line-1145-in-tozone-2010-08-19.html , and here: http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/9857 for the bug report. Apparently the fix has been deferred repeatedly.
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> Essentially, because I'm in Kathmandu, Nepal right now (and will be for the next few years on a research project), timezone support doesn't work right so eventually, Plone becomes confused when it tries to make a new site. The root of the problem seems to be way back down at the Unix-level implementation of timezone support. Nepal is often a difficult case as its TZ is set at GMT+4:45 or GMT+5:45 depending on the time of year.
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> So if I wanted to pursue a fix for this one, how might I begin?

It's not clear what searching you've on just the Unix side.  Does this
problem show up outside the Python context?
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