I'm sorry, but could you be more specific? How exactly should I use UTC? -- Fabio Durieux Lopes - Salsa
----- Original Message ---- From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Fabio Durieux Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: python-list@python.org Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:49:57 PM Subject: Re: Daylight savings time problem On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:37:16 -0000 "Fabio Durieux Lopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to execute some operations based on a file's time. The > file's time is actually the file's name (e.g. FILE1_20080326170558). > So I do this: > fileTimeInSecs = time.mktime(time.strptime(timeString, > "%Y%m%d%H%M")) > > timeString contains the date part of the file's name. Function > strptime returns a time_struct, but my problem is that tm_isdst is > set to 0, and when we enter daylight savings time the file's time is > off by 1 hour. This time_struct is also read only so I can't change > tm_isdst to -1. > > Anyone knows how to fix it? Use UTC. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list