On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:22 AM Alan Gauld via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > On 31/08/2021 22:13, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > But ultimately, it all just means that timezones are too hard for > > humans to handle, and we MUST handle them using IANA's database. It is > > the only way. > > Except for the places that don't follow the IANA scheme and/or > dynamically change their time settings on a whim. To be complete > you need the ability to manually override too. >
What places are those? IANA maintains the database by noticing changes and announcements, and updating the database. I don't think governments need to "opt in" or anything. Stuff happens because people do stuff, and people do stuff because they want to be able to depend on timezone conversions. There ARE times when a government makes a change too quickly to get updates out to everyone, especially those who depend on an OS-provided copy of tzdata, so I agree with the "on a whim" part. Though, fortunately, that's rare. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
