why goes the time change after import statement ?

[Paul Hankin]

On Aug 2, 10:35 pm, binaryjesus <coolman.gu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi i am working on a S3 project and facing a really weird problem!
> take a look at the following import statements and the time output
>
> >>> import time
> >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %X GMT", time.gmtime())
>
> 'Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:21:56 GMT'
>
> # OK
>
> >>> import pygtk
> >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %X GMT", time.gmtime())
>
> 'Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:22:04 GMT'
>
> # OK
>
> >>> import gtk
> >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %X GMT", time.gmtime())
>
> 'Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:22:11 PM GMT'
>
> # HOW THE HELL THIS HAPPEN ??? not DATE_RFC2822 format gmt time !

Reading the manual page for strftime -- http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html
-- says that '%X' is the locale's appropriate time representation, so
obviously gtk is adjusting your locale. Perhaps use a formatting
string that doesn't depend on the locale: '%H:%M:%S' instead of '%X'
seems to give your preferred format.

--
Paul Hankin