On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:28:41 +0300 Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30.09.12 22:51, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Well, no, this isn't similar. Choosing one's timezone policies is a > > contemporary political decision, while choosing a language and its > > alphabet is not really a decision people ever make (it's just an aspect > > of a society's long-term evolution) - except Atatürk, perhaps :-) > > Oh, no. Choosing of alphabet (and sometimes language) is also a > contemporary political decision. For the last 25 years new letter Ґ has > been added to the Ukrainian alphabet, and the letter Ь changed its place > in the alphabet.
Well, yeah, but it's not like you can do it on a whim either, and you can't change the large body of existing text. > Who will update the database? The developer which distributes the > application with embedded Python can forget about the tz updates, as > well as about non-ascii encodings. Native Unicode support in Python > makes the second error less likely. > > Why not use the system data which are updated by the OS? I know that > Windows also changes the clock for local DST. If that's possible, then it sounds the ideal solution indeed. Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net _______________________________________________ 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
