Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Wed Dec 12 10:53:34 CET 2012

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Am 12.12.2012 01:58, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> Ick, why a new module? Why not just add this directly to datetime? (It
> doesn't need to be provided by the C accelerator, it can go straight in
> the pure Python part).

+1 for something like datetime.timezone

How well does hg handle files renames? The datetime module could be
converted to a package.

> I'd prefer a more aggressive name for this like "tzdata_override". My
> rationale is that *nix users need to thoroughly aware that if they
> install this package, they will stop benefiting from the automatic tz
> database updates provided by their OS (especially if they install it
> into the system site packages on a distro that has migrated to Python 3
> for system tools).

+1, too.

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