-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/30/2012 05:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > There is no "Etc/GMT+11" named here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones > > nor is it included in /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab in either of the > systems I looked at (one Debian, one Centos), but there is Etc/GMT. So > I conclude that the PEP allows timezone rules, not just names.
FWIW, my Ubuntu box has zone data for 'ETC/GMT+11': $ file /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Etc/GMT+11 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Etc/GMT+11: timezone data, version 2, \ 1 gmt time flag, 1 std time flag, no leap seconds, no transition times, \ 1 abbreviation char Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDgbjkACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6w2QCgzqAFfOAigwVZMZEh+il+0grb jsYAoMm1g8xnXe1dcgkFMEX0n14grDSH =rCdb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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