On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Paul G <[email protected]> wrote: > Does any other programming language actually support IANA zones out of the > box? I feel like building in IANA zone support into the language itself is a > bad idea, as I think I mentioned in my earlier post. This seems like > something that is clearly best handled by third party libraries. >
Yes, Pike does, and it's extremely convenient. Given that Python includes the groundwork for timezone calculations in the stdlib, I think it would be a Good Thing to have actual lookups of "America/New_York" functional out-of-the-box too; whether that's by actually incorporating tzdata in the stdlib or by referencing it elsewhere, Python scripts shouldn't need to care. I believe there was a proposal at one point to have a pip-updateable package, but a stdlib or OS-provided fallback. If it's possible to query the version of the OS-provided tzdata, Python could easily check all three and use the latest one available. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Datetime-SIG mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/datetime-sig The PSF Code of Conduct applies to this mailing list: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
