On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:45:47 -0000 Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-26, Salsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but could you be more specific? How exactly should I use UTC? > > In my experience, using local time for timestamps is always a > big mistake, so I presume he meant don't use local time in the > file names -- put the UTC date/time in the filenames.
Yes. One problem with using local times is that once a year you can overwrite files. The best option is to use the number of seconds since EPOCH and let programs convert it to UTC or local time as required. -- 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
