Comment 2 for bug 71227
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| James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote Re: Use system timezone database | #2 |
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(Get the code!)
Do you have any particular reason for preferring code generation over this technique? The branch I provide should act pretty much identically to the generated code:
1. builds the same tzinfo instances at runtime, and makes sure you get the same instance each time you request a named time zone.
2. is self contained, not relying on the system time zone database.
3. works as a Python egg, using pkg_resources to look up the compiled time zone files.
Furthermore, it has the following benefits:
1. it can be updated by slotting in new compiled time zone files, rather than needing to regenerate Python source files.
2. would make it possible to support a "localtime" timezone ($TZ environment variable, falling back to /etc/localtime), which could be useful for applications that want to display times in the user's local time zone without requiring additional configuration.