On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0200, Erik Forsberg wrote: > "Martin v. L?wis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> When editing my details I saw there is a field for my timezone. The > >> comment says: "this is a numeric hour offset, the default is UTC", so > >> I'm assuming it counts in whole hours (fine for me, not so fine for > >> people in e.g. India, unless it accepts decimal notation). I have two > >> issues with this: it's unclear which direction this works (is East > >> positive or negative?), and I will need to change this number twice > >> yearly. In other words, it shouldn't be a number, it should be a name, > >> like the names used in Linux: Europe/Amsterdam. > > > > I think this will be fairly difficult to fix. Roundup doesn't have > > a timezone database; it just applies the delta to the UTC time. We are > > merely using roundup, instead of developing it. > > Actually, there is some kind of symbolic time zone support via the > pytz module. If the pytz module is installed, you can provide the time > zone as a symbolic name. I don't know if it follows the DST changes. > > I would suggest that someone enter a feature request in the meta > tracker, http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/, and we can > take a look.
I entered a bug to see if they'll fix it: http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/msg712 Proper timzeone support via pytz has been in roundup since the october 2006 1.2.0 release according to the changelog. -greg
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