On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Matthias Klose <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30.09.2012 20:18, Gregory P. Smith wrote: >> priority: >> 1) api call supplying tz data to the process. >> 2) pytzdata module if it exists >> 3) tz data from the underlying operating system >> 4) error. > > I disagree on this order, at least for Linux systems. the tzdata database is > well managed on major Linux distributions and should be used for this reason.
There's no guarantee that an individual sysadmin will have OS updates up-to-date. If, on Linux, the pytzdata module is not installed unless explicitly called for, that would define pytzdata as high specificity, ergo it should override the lower specificity of the OS-provided data. The normal case on Linux will happily use the well-managed and frequently-updated tzdata. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com