On 2012-10-01, at 17:32 , Terry Reedy wrote: > On 10/1/2012 10:06 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: > >> Actually, that's not a bad idea. My original idea was to warn if it >> *was* outdated, but since there is no way to check that, I scratched >> that idea. > > Is there really no way to get a 'last updated' time from the site where the > database is kept? If not, perhaps we should provide one with a daily job (on > pypi?) that downloads and compares.
There are several: there's a message on a dedicated mailing list and there are HTTP, FTP and rsync repositories with both all releases and a "latest" archive for both tzdata and tzcode. The HTTP repositories seems to handle time-based conditional requests correctly (an If-Modified-Since with the date of the latest release or later will result in a 304 response, earlier will result in a 200) The HTTP URIs are https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz and https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz For some reason, IANA does not seem to publish a feed. _______________________________________________ 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
