On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Details of the registry entries are at > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725481.aspx. It looks like the data > is focused on modern timezones rather than localities, which would mean a > many-to-one mapping from zoneinfo. Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's > enough overlap to allow an automated mapping.
No, but the Unicode consortium (I think) is keeping a mapping updated manually. I'm using that in tzlocal, to figure out the local timezone of the computer on Windows. However, I think that mixing and matching timezone data in this way from the two systems are likely to be full of pitfalls edge-cases and complexities I do not dare even think seriously about. There will probably be *less* errors by just keeping an old timezone database around. Besides, what it they don't run Windows update? Then the data still is outdated? //Lennart _______________________________________________ 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
