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List:       zope-dev
Subject:    [Zope-dev] Re: SVN: Zope/trunk/lib/python/DateTime/ tidy up legacy
From:       Tres Seaver <tseaver () palladion ! com>
Date:       2007-10-23 14:05:14
Message-ID: 471DFF9A.3070508 () palladion ! com
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In response to Laurence Rowe's checkin:

  http://svn.zope.org/Zope/?rev=80958&view=rev

Sidnei da Silva wrote:

> May I ask why the 'Brazil/DeNoronha' timezone was commented out?
> AFAICT, it's a valid timezone. At least I can find several references,
> one of which seems to imply that 'Brazil/DeNoronha' is an alias to
> 'America/Noronha'.
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/tz.html
> http://dev.joyent.com/projects/connector/browse/trunk/vendor/gems/tzinfo-0.3.4/lib/tzinfo/definitions/Brazil/DeNoronha.rb?rev=414
> 


Laurence Rowe wrote:

> There was no data for it. Trying to retrieve it from the _tzinfo cache
> resulted in a KeyError, it's not in pytz.common_timezones or the
> _zmap.
> 
> 'America/Noronha' is not in pytz.common_timezones either.
> 
> Laurence

There *is* data for the zone in DateTimeZone.py, however;  I'm pretty
wure that we are supposed to fall back to that data if pytz misses;
otherwise we risk breaking old pickles.  Amos, can you confirm?


Tres.
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