Utkarsh Upadhyay added the comment:
Hmm, I don't know if testing every zone is necessary. However, I would not be
comfortable picking out the zones one ought to test, considering:
if ('Riyadh8' in self.zonename or
# From tzdata NEWS file:
# The files solar87, solar88, and solar89 are no longer distributed.
# They were a negative experiment - that is, a demonstration that
# tz data can represent solar time only with some difficulty and
error.
# Their presence in the distribution caused confusion, as Riyadh
# civil time was generally not solar time in those years.
self.zonename.startswith('right/')):
and:
> # Iran had a sub-minute UTC offset before 1946.
in
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/test/datetimetester.py#L4865
Perhaps @belopolsky can suggest something? (Already in Nosy List).
~
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