Use system zoneinfo data on Android
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
The zoneinfo module can load time zone information from the common IANA format: one directory per continent, containing one file per city. These files can come from one of two sources:
- The operating system in of the following paths: /usr/share/zoneinfo:/usr/lib/zoneinfo:/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo:/etc/zoneinfo.
- The
tzdatapackage on PyPI.
None of the well-known paths exist on Android, so the best approach on Android is currently the same as on Windows – use the tzdata package from PyPI.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the zoneinfo module's platform-specific path detection and compare Android with the existing Windows fallback. Verify the relevant Android system paths and add tests showing that available system IANA data is used instead of requiring the PyPI tzdata package.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, python
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100