Mark Lawrence added the comment:
Could one of our timezone gurus respond to this please.
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Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
I think this is out-of-date. On Mac OS X, I get
```
$ python3 -V
Python 3.4.1
$ TZ=Europe/Moscow python3 -c import time; print(time.daylight)
0
```
I'll check on Linux now ...
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Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
Same result on a freshly compiled
Python 3.4.1 (default, Jun 29 2014, 15:26:46)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux
$ TZ=Europe/Moscow ~/Apps/bin/python3 -c import time; print(time.daylight)
0
I suspect that the problem was with OP's system
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
But python detect daylight flag as differences between January and July
localtime.
This is the best we can do because time.daylight is a constant and this does
not work in locations like Moscow where daylight rules were adopted ~ 30 years
ago and
Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
I suspect there will be another period soon when time.daylight logic will break
after Europe/Moscow goes back to winter time (hopefully for good).
There is no solution of this issue within constraints of the time module. See
issue9527 for how it was
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New submission from Dmitry Balabanov dim...@gmail.com:
In Europe/Moscow timezone:
import time
time.daylight
1
time.timezone
-10800
But if compile and run attached program result would be:
timezone: -14400, daylight: 0
Daylight is not applicable in Europe/Moscow timezone from this winter.
