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Is there any reason why 'dateutil.tz' can't be used instead of dateutil.zoneinfo? The original bug report was made against python-
Some context:
python-dateutil’s zoneinfo tarball is not included in the binary package since 1.4.1-1ubuntu2 (from 28 Sep 2008) [1].
The dateutil.zoneinfo is expected to use the shipped tarball instead of the system’s tzdata. Unfortunately shipping copies zoneinfo data goes against Debian and Ubuntu policies - specially for outdated copies. See the original bug report for that in Debian [2].
The usual way to access timezone data is by relying on dateutil.tz: it is designed to use the system's zoneinfo first, with dateutil.zoneinfo as a fallback. Debian and Ubuntu ship tzdata with current zoneinfo, thus the dateutil.zoneinfo code is never used - it seems it is there basically for Windows, since Windows provides no API for timezone data.
On a side note: PEP 615 [3] has been approved for Python 3.9 and so python-dateutil will no longer be required in the future - there’s also some plans to include it as a backport for 3.6+.
Bug will be marked as incomplete while we wait for more information. Feel free to reply back and change its status after updating the report.
Thanks!
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