[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support.
Tres Seaver
tseaver at palladion.com
Sun Dec 30 17:39:21 CET 2012
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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.
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