-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 16:26, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: >> Because timezones are defined politically, they change frequently. pytz >> is released frequently (multiple times per year) to accomodate those >> changes: I can't see any way to preserve that flexibility if the >> package were part of stdlib. > > By using what the OS provides. At least on Linux, the basic timezone > data is usually updated by other means (at least on the distro I'm > familiar with, it's updated quite often, too; through the package > manager). I'm assuming Windows and OS X would also be able to provide > something like this. I think pytz already looks at this data if it's > available (precisely because it might well be newer).
If that were so, I don't think Stuart would be going to the trouble to re-release the library 6 - 12 times per year. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkt6xVwACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4q4ACdGRozE9rfoYkYGmNOiGTQIZyj CeMAoJlmEamyWUbHSQYA0Yq28t+YlbZT =UC3U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
