getmtime differs between Py2.5 and Py2.4

Irmen de Jong irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl
Mon May 7 19:15:17 EDT 2007


Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Is this a bug? 
> 
> Why don't you read the responses posted earlier? John Machin
> replied (in <1178232636.415630.106320 at l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>)
> that you are mistaken: There is NO difference between the outcome
> of os.path.getmtime between Py2.5 and Py2.4. It always did return
> UTC, and always will.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

Err.....:

[E:\Projects]dir *.py

  Volume in drive E is Data           Serial number is 2C4F:9C2D
  Directory of  E:\Projects\*.py

31-03-2007  20:46             511  log.py
25-11-2006  16:59             390  p64.py
  7-03-2007  23:07             207  sock.py
  3-02-2007  16:15             436  threads.py
           1.544 bytes in 4 files and 0 dirs    16.384 bytes allocated
     287.555.584 bytes free

[E:\Projects]c:\Python24\python.exe -c "import os; print os.path.getmtime('p64.py')"
1164470381

[E:\Projects]c:\Python25\python.exe -c "import os; print os.path.getmtime('p64.py')"
1164466781.28


This is python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5.1 on windows XP.
The reported time clearly differs.

--Irmen



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