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Wed Feb 17 11:24:19 CET 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-February/097738.html

-On [20100217 03:19], Stuart Bishop (stuart at stuartbishop.net) wrote:
>The Debian, Ubuntu and I think Redhat packages all use the system
>zoneinfo database - there are hooks in there to support package
>maintainers that want to do this. This way the package can be included
>in the supported release but still receive timezone information
>updates via the OS (but no code updates, but these are rare and
>usually irrelevant unless you where the person who filed the bug ;) ).

This can also work for all the BSDs since they include the Olson zoneinfo
data in the base system as well. And that will probably mean Mac OS X as
well, if they stuck to what FreeBSD had in place for that. Can anyone verify
that?

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