Re: python-tz and the timezone saga

2021-10-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 30/09/2021, 18:00, "Daniel Baumann" wrote: On 9/30/21 10:50, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Are any other packages in the same situation ? In pytzdata, I've removed the embedded copy in order to use the system copy (= tzdata) of the zoneinfo files. Sensible, I think. There is

Re: python-tz and the timezone saga

2021-09-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 9/30/21 10:50, Alastair McKinstry wrote: Are any other packages in the same situation ? In pytzdata, I've removed the embedded copy in order to use the system copy (= tzdata) of the zoneinfo files. Regards, Daniel

python-tz and the timezone saga

2021-09-30 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Dear Colleagues Some time ago (2017) I took responsibility for python-tz (now within the python team). This essentially wraps timezone and adds a few helper functions, but it does so taking the original data from a vendored copy of zoneinfo, not the standard copy on the system, which it pick