2008/7/1 Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue 01 Jul 2008 at 02:46PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> 2008/7/1  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > Hey Dan,
>> > I took a look at your changes.  In general, I think this is good.
>> >
>> > The only thought that I had was that you changed a bunch of code from
>> > using datetime.datetime.now() to datetime.datetime.utcnow().  It would
>> > probably make sense to make this consistent throughout the rest of the
>> > code, so that we don't get weird/confusing behavior with timestamps and
>> > time comparisons.  I think the catalog and updatelog use datetime, but
>> > I'm not sure where else this shows up in the code.
>>
>> Speaking of which...
>>
>> One of the things I ran into while working on bug 1324 (RSS/Atom
>> feeds) is that some of the timestamps don't have a timezone, so I had
>> to output timestamps with "Z".
>>
>> So, I'm glad to see this change if it will accomplish what I think it will.
>>
>> I plan on reviewing Dan's changes after work later tonight.
>
> utcnow() does not appear to actually add a UTC timezone to the datetime.
> I found the python docs for this stuff to be somewhat incomprehensible,
> so I decided that I would just assume all datetimes were in UTC, and
> take care to generate them in UTC.

I'm not certain about that. I believe I found local timestamps when I
was working with the catalog for the RSS/Atom feeds.

I'll look closer later tonight.

Thanks,
-- 
Shawn Walker
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