Paul Ganssle

So I think on the mailing list we decided that switching to just `_pydatetime` was fine, but the blocker last time we tried to do this was now making sure...

I think we should explore the option of a merge strategy that doesn't require manual backports, but if we can't find one, or if someone with git expertise can explain...

@carljm If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe you can just construct your `rrule` using today (or any day before the desired start date) as the `dtstart`, then call `rrule.after()`...

Actually, looking at this more carefully, I realize that `after()` retrieves exactly one date, so the way to do what you want would be: ``` python def dates_after(rr, basis_date, count=None):...

Ah, I see what you mean. The problem is that rrules cannot iterate backwards, only forwards. I think that this is a feature that should be added when `rrule2` is...

@mariocj89 Good timing on this, I have actually just gotten my proof of concept `zoneinfo` implementation into a workable state, and should be [preparing a PEP if necessary](https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/20) this weekend....

@mariocj89 Yeah, happy to go ahead with this but for #1121. I am waaaay behind on `dateutil` and have approximately 0 time for OSS stuff lately (note: I haven't even...

@houseofsuns Correct. There is an ongoing effort to improve the way the parser works so that downstream users can have more effective fine-grained control over the various fallbacks. For now,...

@ewen-naos-nz It's not like I'm unsympathetic to the plight, this is just a hard problem that we've been working to resolve in a satisfactory way. In my opinion the API...

> Since two package managers are then involved... they each do their own thing, and anything without an isolated environment (virtualenv / docker / ...) will get the confusing mix...