anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> added the comment: Classic user developer impedance mismatch. =)
I agree that Python should guard its users against crazy standards that creep into standard lib, because nobody had time to think about pythonic API. I propose the following change: http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.altzone - UTC offset of the local DST timezone if one is defined. Only use this if daylight is nonzero. + UTC offset of the current timezone with Daylight Savings Time (DST) correction. To check if DST is currently active, use `time.localtime(t).tm_isdst` http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.daylight - Nonzero if a DST timezone is defined. + Flag indicating that current timezone has Daylight Savings Time (DST) offset. To check if DST is currently active, use `time.localtime(t).tm_isdst` http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.timezone - UTC offset of the local (non-DST) timezone + UTC offset of the current timezone. It doesn't include Daylight Savings Time (DST) correction. See `time.altzone` for that. BTW, isn't the following check redundant? if time.localtime(t).tm_isdst and time.daylight: ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7229> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
