oops, to be specific here's what I'm seeing:
datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%c %Z") ==> Thu Mar 10 14:57:31 2016
(i.e. timestamp is in CST with no timezone info)
os.environ['TZ'] ==> America/Chicago
where dev_appserver and standard GAE return:
datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%c %Z") ==> Thu Mar 10 21:00:14 2016
(i.e. timestamp is in UTC with no timezone info)
os.environ['TZ'] ==> 'UTC'
adam
On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 12:32:07 PM UTC-8, Adam Sah wrote:
>
> Here's what I've tried so far...
> - set os.environ['TZ'] to 'UTC' on startup - failed because GAE
> overwrites this.
> - set os.environ['TZ'] to 'UTC' on each call by creating a child class to
> webapp.WSGIApplication and adding it to __call__() - failed because GAE
> overwrites this.
> - monkeypatching datetime.datetime.now() to use a specially hacked
> function - failed because GAE disallows modifying now()
>
> I'm currently trying a hack to rewrite all calls (100+)
> to datetime.datetime.now() to instead use an app-specific implementation
> which returns the UTC time - this won't work for third party libraries, but
> that maybe OK for my app, which uses pylint custom rules to migrate
> engineers to using app-specific replacement functions (e.g. we disallow
> direct calls to gc.collect() so we can track stats better). If this works,
> I'll post.
>
> adam
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 1:45:54 PM UTC-8, Adam Sah wrote:
>>
>> e.g. os.environ['TZ'] changed to America/Chicago when before it was UTC.
>>
>> The docs don't mention this difference anywhere.
>>
>> If anyone has a workaround, pls reply - I'm working on a workaround now,
>> will post if successful.
>>
>> hope this helps,
>> adam
>>
>>
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