On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:10:06 +0200 > Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> > Can't we simply include the Olson database in Windows installers? >> >> We probably can, but the problem is that it's updated quite often (for >> example, in 2011, there were about 14 releases; in 2009, there were >> 21). So you'd want to have a mechanism to override the data that is >> included in the stdlib. > > Probably, but for most purposes I would guess a 2-year old database is > still good enough? After all, you don't see many people complaining > about the outdated Unicode database that is hard-wired in past Pythons.
An out-of-date timezone database will bite someone at some point. They'll be running code that expects some locality to be on/off DST when it isn't, and some customer will be confused or annoyed. I suspect most people won't much care, though. It's only a few who'd explicitly upgrade their tz database. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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