Daylight savings and getmtime

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on my windows xp box os.path.getmtime gives back local time (I just
saved the file):
>>> os.path.getmtime('c:\\temp\\testset.py')
1106955016
>>> print time.mktime(time.localtime())
1106955034.0

You can try to figure out if DST is on by comparing time.localtime()
versus time.gmtime(). In the Western European Timezone there's one hour
difference in winter and two hours  in summer.

>>> os.path.getmtime('c:\\temp\\testset.py')
1106954702
>>> g = time.mktime(time.gmtime())
>>> l = time.mktime(time.localtime())
>>> print g, l
1106951381.0 1106954987.0
>>> os.path.getmtime('c:\\temp\\testset.py')
1106955016
>>> print time.mktime(time.localtime())
1106955034.0
>>> print l - g
3606.0
>>>