anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> added the comment: It is too hard to track this issue without quotes from manual. Let's bring context into discussion:
http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.altzone UTC offset of the local DST timezone if one is defined. Only use this if daylight is nonzero. http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.daylight Nonzero if a DST timezone is defined. http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.timezone UTC offset of the local (non-DST) timezone So, to answer a question "What is the current UTC offset?" you need to: if time.daylight: if time.altzone: # using only if defined use time.altzone else: use time.timezone else: use time.timezone 1. Is that really works like described above? 2. Should we at least group these timezone variables? As for offtopic UTC vs GMT - I doubt there is a way to clearly express that the offset sign of the returned values is negated in comparison with real "UTC offsets" without resorting to some king of alternative east/west scale. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7229> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
