[Python-Dev] datetime module and pytz with dateutil

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 14:14:07 CEST 2012


On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:28, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> *However*, doesn't Windows have its own system database?

Yeah, but it sucks.

> The problem is that in order to not include the olsen database, pytz
> would need to be modified to use the system database on Windows.

Quite a lot too, I'd guess since the databases are completely
different in pretty much every way, most importantly in the way that
they are using different (and insane) names for the timezones.

//Lennart


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