I'm quite disturbed that my ESVA gateway let a python script through... Yes, OT, but interesting (to me) nevertheless.
J Simon Wood wrote: > Hi all, > On one of my trips to VFX Graham queried whether the new daylight savings > shift is already accounted for.... well Novell Open Audio guys thought the > problem big enough to put out a special show on the issue. > > http://www.novell.com/feeds/openaudio/?p=131 > > [makes you wonder why Groupware doesn't use time/locale combination rather > than UTC as a reference point - afterall computers do travel across > timezones, some appointments are localtime and some are referenced to other > timezones] > > > Anyhow got me thinking about it and here's a little python script intended to > check whether daylight savings starts on the new date of March 11, 2007 or > not.... > > Cheers, > Simon. > > PS. Be nice, it's my first python script :-) > > PPS. Dapper LTS seems to be OK. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > #!/bin/python > from time import strftime, localtime, mktime > > # float time_check=0 > print "Checking March 10/11 transistion, 2007" > time_check=mktime((2007, 3, 10, 12, 0, 0, 4, 68, -1)) > > # add exactly 1 day worth of seconds and see whether we get 'hour' shift. > if (strftime("%H",localtime(time_check + (3600 * 24))) == "12"): > print "Daylight Savings not changing - Damn you George W.!" > else: > print "Daylight Savings changing - OK." > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Key fingerprint: BDE0 DE52 B8C0 0CDF 7653 E5A2 D861 7877 0D3B 813E http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.770.2837 "Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast" - ESR _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
