[Zope3-dev] The Date Time and TimeZone question

[Guido van Rossum]

> Please check out the tz/zoneinfo library. It's the one that handles
> timezones, and is as far as I know included in most unices today. Again, I
> haven't read the code for this (I haven't done time zone stuff under unix)
> so I don't know how useful it is, but it seems weird to have a library that
> specifies timezone information back to 19th century if the API's doesn't
> support using it.
> Still, weirder things been known to happen. :-)

I have no desire to couple Python's standard datetime implementation
to a 3rd party library.  Nor does Zope, I'm sure.

> No, it's not a standard c library, but as you said, UNIX!=C. :-)

And Python doesn't only run on Unix.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)