[zope2-tracker] [Bug 142148] Re: DateTime default timezone wrong in some locations

[Dylan Jay]

Chris your fix is no better than the previous ones. It will break
american EST. This is a really hard problem to solve for all the reasons
above.

The best work around for now is the one I mention in https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/501805.
We use this for all our australian clients. We're an Australian Plone integrator.

That is override the TZ env var on an instance by instance basis. (the
code below is up to date with the latest NSW timezone rules btw).

[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
...
environment-vars =
    TZ AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.1.0/02:00:00,M4.1.0/03:00:00

The only caveat is that there seems to be a bug in zope that to make
this work you have to run

bin/instance console

instead of runzope.py.

but I'm told "instance console" is now the recommended of running plone
in production anyway so it's not that much of an issue.

It would sitll be nice to have a zope (and python) that "just works" for
AEST :)

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