In message <874on82oan....@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney wrote: > Or you could use the ready-made wheel maintained by others: > > tzinfo Objects > <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#tzinfo-objects>
But that’s only an abstract base class, which means it doesn’t actually implement any reading of actual timezone info. > World timezone definitions, modern and historical > <URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz> Shame that they maintain their own duplicate of the Olson database, instead of reading the original directly from /usr/share/zoneinfo <http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Reading_time_zone_files>. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
