timezone stuff driving me bonkers!!!
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at lemburg.com
Thu Apr 15 11:49:17 EDT 1999
Stephen Crompton wrote:
>
> Pretty obvious from the header I guess.
>
> I want to convert from a UTC tuple to the time since the epoch. As far
> as I can tell this should definitely be timezone, DST, etc. independent.
> However, there is a notable absence of this functionality in the time
> module (presumably due to C library absences ?)
Try the utc2local() function in mxDateTime (an extension package
which can download from my Python Pages).
It will convert a DateTime instance using UTC values to a
DateTime instance using local time. The .ticks() method on
that instance will get you the time since epoch value.
Cheers,
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Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 260 days left
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