Hi, Eoghan and all,
When I implement an enhancement to trusted_filter, I need utilize
timeutils() to parse ISO time. However, I suspect there is one potential issue
in normalize_time() and want to get some input from your side.
In normalize_time(), if the parameter "timestamp" is an aware object
(http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html) , it's output will vary depends
on the input. If the timestamp is UTC time, it will be return as is without
convention, i.e still an aware object. However, if it's not an UTC time, it
will be converted to be a naive object.
This mean that the function will return different type depends on
input, that's not so good IMHO.
The worse is, any compare/substract between naïve object and aware
object will fail. Because the timeutils.utcnow() and datetime.datetime.now()
returns naive object, so compare/substract between the uctnow() and
normalize_time() may fail, or not, depends on input from the API user. I'm a
bit surprised that changes-since works on such situation :)
I suspect this is caused by the "if offset". When timestamp is naïve
object, the offset is None. Thus check "if offset" will avoid operation type
exception. However, if the timestamp is UTC time, the offset will be
date.timeslot(0), which will return false also for "if offset".
Are there any special reason that we need keep aware object if input is
at UTC time already? Can I changes the function to always return naive object?
If yes, I can create a patch for it.
Thanks
--jyh
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