Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> the difference (rounding to an int number of seconds) is just about one >> hour; in certain parts of the world (Europe and Africa), that could >> indeed be a timezone issue. > > With the help of Tony Meyer, we rediscovered the explanation: because > of a bug in the Microsoft C run-time library, the UTC time reported by > 2.4 may have been off by one hour (it wasn't local time - just off > by one hour). This was due to DST issues. They have been fixed in 2.5, > which now reports the correct UTC value. > > Regards, > Martin
Well, indeed I got only a 1 hour difference, on my machine (local time here is +1 hour). But when I temporarily set the local time of my machine to GMT I the difference became 0, therefore I assumed wrongly it had something to do with the local time difference. Thanks to everyone helping to clarify this. My response was slow, because I have been experiencing problems with my newsreader setup. - Josef -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list