[issue24517] %z does not work in time.strftime()

2015-06-26 Thread dendory
New submission from dendory: Using `%z` gives the same result as using `%Z` in `time.strftime()`: Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:43:06) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import time

[issue24517] %z does not work in time.strftime()

2015-06-26 Thread dendory
dendory added the comment: Uh? But that's completely besides the point. Windows provides timezone offset information in a different way than Linux does (through the Registry) but it's still available. It's trivial to do in .NET for example: Console.WriteLine

[issue20281] time.strftime %z format specifier is the same as %Z

2015-06-26 Thread dendory
dendory added the comment: Why is the focus on documentation entries when the real work should be on trying to make this function to work on all platforms? I understand that Windows's implementation of strftime() defines %z and %Z to return the same thing, but timezone information is still