On 9/7/05, Stuart Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is an issue if timezone definitions change. So for instance, if you
> pickled a datetime instance for 13:00 1st April 2007 US/Eastern with version
> 2005k of pytz, if you unpickled it using version 2005m of pytz it would
> still think it was 13:00 1st April 2007 EST. If you then converted it to UTC
> and back to US/Eastern (such as done by pytz's normalize() method), you
> would end up with 14:00 1st April 2007 EDT. This is correct or crap
> depending on what sort of applications you write :)

This suggests to me that timezones should always go through a name
lookup when unpickling.  That doesn't avoid all problems (e.g., use a
timezone database that doesn't handle a future rule, convert an
affected date to UTC, update to a new version of the database, and
convert back to the original timezone), but there's a limit to what
can be done.

If timezones are always pickled as name references, that would avoid
freezing broken rules into the database, at least.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at gmail.com>
Zope Corporation
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