need help with timezone conversion (unexpected side effect of time.mktime ??)

[Ivan Velev]

Thanks Paul,

I have identified the "problem" - because of daylight change this
particular timesamp was observed twice in Europe/Sofia. Here is the
GMT-to-local-time conversion:


+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| gmt_stamp  | gmt_time            | local_time          |
+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 1130631000 | 2005-10-30 00:10:00 | 2005-10-30 03:10:00 |
+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 1130634600 | 2005-10-30 01:10:00 | 2005-10-30 03:10:00 |
+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 1130638200 | 2005-10-30 02:10:00 | 2005-10-30 04:10:00 |
+------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 1130641800 | 2005-10-30 03:10:00 | 2005-10-30 05:10:00 |
+------------+---------------------+---------------------+

When you do local-time-to-GMT conversion you can expect any of those
two timestamps. I missed that initially :( (I was sure that local time
has "one hour gap" and not "one hour of overlapping time")

>  and I'd recommend the datetime module for any serious work with dates and times.

Last time when I was playing with TZ conversions, I was not able to do
anything using datetime module - it seems that one needs to define his
own set of timezones (+ all the details) to get it working ... Am I
wrong ? Can you show me how do accomplish the same conversion using
datetime module ?

Thanks again,
  Ivan