Patch pulled from Gentoo. Forces package to use system tzinfo --- a/pytz/__init__.py +++ b/pytz/__init__.py @@ -91,8 +91,7 @@ if zoneinfo_dir is not None: filename = os.path.join(zoneinfo_dir, *name_parts) else: - filename = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), - 'zoneinfo', *name_parts) + filename = os.path.join('/usr/share/zoneinfo', *name_parts) if not os.path.exists(filename): # http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383171 - we avoid using this # unless absolutely necessary to help when a broken version of