time.strftime Timezone issue
Allen Unueco
allen at premierweb.com
Sat Jun 12 21:42:51 EDT 2004
Never mind,
I just looked at Modules/timemodule.c and now I realize it that
time.strftime() is just a wrapper for the c library function of the same
name.
I guess I'll just live with my 'time.tzname[time.daylight]' code.
-allen
Allen Unueco wrote:
> I feel that the '%Z' format specifier from strftime() returns the wrong
> value when daylight savings is in effect.
>
> Today the following is always true:
> time.strftime('%Z') == time.tzname[0]
>
> Shouldn't it be:
> time.strftime('%Z') == time.tzname[time.daylight]
>
> -allen
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