On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:30:04 +0200, Xavier Morel <python-...@masklinn.net> wrote: > On 2012-09-30, at 15:15 , Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:10:06 +0200 > > Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > >> wrote: > >>> Can't we simply include the Olson database in Windows installers? > >> > >> We probably can, but the problem is that it's updated quite often (for > >> example, in 2011, there were about 14 releases; in 2009, there were > >> 21). So you'd want to have a mechanism to override the data that is > >> included in the stdlib. > > > > Probably, but for most purposes I would guess a 2-year old database is > > still good enough? After all, you don't see many people complaining > > about the outdated Unicode database that is hard-wired in past Pythons. > > But at worst, an outdated unicode database will be missing data right? > > Doesn't an outdated timezone db have the risk of returning *incorrect* data?
Yes. And the timezeone database is much more volatile than the unicode database. The changes are, after all, driven almost entirely by politics. --David _______________________________________________ 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
