[Zope3-dev] Re: Bug in i18n timezones (was Re: [Zope3-Users]
obtaining time zone from http request)
Stuart Bishop
stuart at stuartbishop.net
Mon Aug 29 22:38:54 EDT 2005
Gary Poster wrote:
>>> And FWIW, once you get your browser settings correct, for the
>>> timezone part of the locale database, en-* is all the same--that is,
>>> if my locale is en-US, I get all en* locations (including Casablanca,
>>> Tokyo, and other interesting locations). :-) I think you will too.
> You know, I was about to write back and say, hey, don't blame us, it's
> those crazy Unicode people: http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/ main/
> . We are using their database.
>
> Then, when I was looking up how to submit bug reports to the database,
> I saw this on http://www.unicode.org/cldr/ filing_bug_reports.html :
> """Similarly, the timezones for different regions are to be derived
> from Olson data, and are not in the locale data.""".
>
> It seems we are supposed to be getting our i18n timezone data, mapping
> country code to timezone name, from the Olson database. AU, for
> instance, gets this much more reasonable list from the current Olson
> database's 'zone.tab' file:
>
> AU -3133+15905 Australia/Lord_Howe Lord Howe Island
> AU -4253+14719 Australia/Hobart Tasmania - most locations
> Stephan, do you have any concerns about incorporating the Olson
> information in 18n? I suppose another approach would be to see if
> Stuart would be willing to have pytz grow this mapping, and have the
> i18n package depend on pytz. I'd actually prefer that, if you and
> Stuart agreed and were willing, since he already has his automatic
> processing of the Olson database, and is already keeping up with the
> Olson releases.
I'm happy to expose this through pytz. There is a new set of data files
released yesterday (including the 2006 changes the US has just signed into
law) so I can push out a new release in the next day or two with this added.
Stephan - Should this update go into the 3.1 branch, or just the trunk?
--
Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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