I tend to deal with dates a lot in different formats and places...
typically I'll convert them to a time tuple with strptime(), and pass
them around like that before I need to write them back out.
One set of time/dates I'm getting are in UTC, but the string doesn't
say that specifically. So I do this.. I had expected the outcome to
be offset properly (I'm EST5EDT). But I'm obviously missing
something:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import time
utc_str = '2008-05-10 03:05:00 UTC'
d = time.strptime(utc_str,'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z')
t = time.mktime(d)
print d
print time.gmtime(t)
print time.localtime(t)
output :
(2008, 5, 10, 3, 5, 0, 5, 131, 0)
(2008, 5, 10, 8, 5, 0, 5, 131, 0)
(2008, 5, 10, 4, 5, 0, 5, 131, 1)
I believe that I should be getting (2008, 5, 9, 23, 5, 0, 5, 130, 1)
out of one of those, since the original 3:05am time was UTC, and my TZ
is currently -4. Does that make sense? I didn't even think I needed
to do any business with time.localtime() and time.gmtime(). I
expected time.strftime() to return the locale appropriate time, but
it didn't.
TIA
Eric
