Timezone info is not updated when installing from source

Bug #966946 reported by Tomi Hukkalainen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
dateutil
Confirmed
Medium
Tomi Hukkalainen

Bug Description

updatetzinfo.py needs to be run manually. This makes installing straight from version control clumsy.

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Tomi Hukkalainen (tpievila) wrote :

Though connecting to the nih.gov site is not guaranteed to succeed either. If installation depended on it, it could fail quite often (like now, when I'm writing this...).

Changed in dateutil:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Tomi Pieviläinen (tpievila)
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Dave Hein (dhein-8) wrote :

What is "updatetzinfo.py" and when would I run it? I did not see it in the source for dateutil.

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Tomi Hukkalainen (tpievila) wrote :

It's the tool to update the internal timezone database. I added it to the README. And it's located right in the project root...

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