Python 2.1 and Daylight saving time

[Hammett, Wayne]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Help me OB1,

I mainly needed to know if I could avert Daylight Saving Time issues by
upgrading to Python 2.5.

It appears that Python gets it UTC settings from a table in the C
library. Does this still hold true for Python 2.5. It looks that it will
fail to recognize the new DST 2007 changes.


Thanks again,

Wayne Hammett - MCSE
Snr. Network Engineer
1214 Church Street
Nashville,  TN  37246
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-----Original Message-----
From: skip at pobox.com [mailto:skip at pobox.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:41 PM
To: Hammett, Wayne
Cc: webmaster at python.org
Subject: Re: Python 2.1 and Daylight saving time


    Wayne> It appears that Python 2.1 is affected by the DST 2007 issue.
I
    Wayne> cannot really tell.

    Wayne> Can you point me to support documentation?

Wayne,

Python 2.1 is quite old and no longer supported.  The last 2.1 release
(2.1.3) was April 8, 2002.  The current release is Python 2.5.  That
said,
can you describe your problem clearly?  Do you have a simple script that
demonstrates the problem?  If so, it's possible that you can get some
help
from the folks on the python-list at python.org mailing list.  At the very
least people should be able to tell you if the problem you see exists in
later versions or if there's a bug in your script you can fix to avoid
the
problem.

-- 
Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/
"The hippies and the hipsters did some great stuff in the sixties,
but the geeks pulled their weight too." -- Billy Bragg