Re: Should we require pytz for timezone support in Django?

I reviewed the patch and I think it’s good. It removes quite a lot of messy code. There’s a DEP in progress about allowing dependencies here: https://github.com/django/deps/pull/26 It looks like that there’s consensus on the general idea of allowing

Re: Should we require pytz for timezone support in Django?

Hello Kevin, > On 09 Oct 2016, at 20:09, Kevin Brown wrote: > > If there was interest in dropping support for using Django without timezones > (so removing USE_TZ = False), then I would understand the push for making > pytz required for everyone. You’re making the

Re: Should we require pytz for timezone support in Django?

I agree with requiring pytz if you have timezone support enabled in Django, as that cuts out a set of edge cases and likely simplifies the code base a bit in the long run. And I even agree with forcing it to be installed with Django if we want to encourage people to use Django with timezone