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[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 18:39:03 CEST 2012 
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

>  On 10/01/2012 04:29 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
> Using the script I mentioned in an different response, if someone installed
> the database to some location (TBD), then there would probably be a config
> file sitting next to it.  A simple .ini file with an 'enable' flag would be
> needed to turn on the override.
>
>
> Perhaps said config file could also contain the timestamp of the tz
> database?  Then we could intelligently choose the most currentest one.
>

The most current one is likely to be the one provided by the operating
system, which does not contain any .ini file, nor, as far as I can tell,
any information about the database version or any timestamps.

//Lennart
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