On Mar 30, 1:47 pm, CinnamonDonkey <cinnamondon...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I had the following bit of code which was working fine until we went > into Daylight saving this weekend, now the result is an hour out. > > timeString = "20090330 15:45:23" > > timeFormat = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' > > modificationTime = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp( time.mktime > ( time.strptime( timeString, timeFormat ) ) ) > minutesToAdvance = datetime.timedelta( minutes=5 ) > > modificationTime = modificationTime + minutesToAdvance > > datetimeString = str ( modificationTime ).replace( ' ', 'T' ) > > The expected result should be: > > datetimeString = "20090330T15:50:23" > > But instead I get: > > datetimeString = "20090330T14:50:23" > > I believe it is going wrong at either the mktime() or utcfromtimestamp > () stage. > > What is the correct way to fix this compensating for daylight saving > automatically? > > Regards, > SHaun >8)
Take a look at the datetime docs http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.tzinfo.dst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
