Hi Chris,
Chris Rebert wrote:
from calendar import timegm
def timestamp(dttm):
return timegm(dttm.utctimetuple())
#the *utc*timetuple change is just for extra consistency
#it shouldn't actually make a difference here
And problem solved. As for what the problem was:
Paraphrasing the table I got added to the time module docs:
(http://docs.python.org/library/time.html)
That table is not obvious :-/
Could likely do with its own section...
To convert from struct_time in ***UTC***
to seconds since the epoch
use calendar.timegm()
...and really, wtf is timegm doing in calendar rather than in time? ;-)
I'd be *more* interested in knowing either why the timestamp function or the
tests are wrong and how to correct them...
You used a function intended for local times on UTC time data, and
therefore got incorrect results.
Thanks for the info, I don't think I'd ever have gotten to the bottom of
this on my own! :-)
Chris
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