Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 12:08:05PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: I got bit (not in pytz) by US/Pacific disappearing, so I understand the annoyance from the user perspective. However, as that is what has happening in tzdata, I don't think we should have individual packages trying to fight that in

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 06:42:43AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: But ./gen_tzinfo.py in python-tz adds extra timezones it believes should be present, including some backwards-compatible entries such as "US/Pacific". Adding these timezones is possible, but I am loath to diverge from tzdata..

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Richard Laager
Perhaps I was unclear, which might have made things worse than having not said anything at all. So I'll take one attempt at clarifying. The issue doesn't impact me personally all that much, I don't have strong feelings, and I recognize that all options have pros and cons. As I understood the

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 04:50:58PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: Option C would also keep the whole system consistent. But in that scenario, installing python-tz indirectly adds system-wide timezone values. I'm hesitant about that idea; it feels like "spooky action at a distance". FWIW, that'

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Richard Laager
I got bit (not in pytz) by US/Pacific disappearing, so I understand the annoyance from the user perspective. However, as that is what has happening in tzdata, I don't think we should have individual packages trying to fight that individually/haphazardly. I looked at the patches in the package.

Re: "Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-08 Thread Ananthu C V
Hi, I am not entirely sure, but I think you can probably find those missing timezones in tzdata-legacy package. Best, Ananthu

"Missing" entries in timezone tables

2025-04-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I have an issue with some missing entries in the zoneinfo files in tzdata that I need to resolve. I maintain two packages, python-pytz and python-xarray. python-tz provides a python interface to timezone data;in Debian its patched to read from zoneinfo rather tha ship its own copy of the