Daylight savings time problem

2008-03-26 Thread Fabio Durieux Lopes
Hi, I'm trying to execute some operations based on a file's time. The file's time is actually the file's name (e.g. FILE1_20080326170558). So I do this: fileTimeInSecs = time.mktime(time.strptime(timeString, %Y%m%d%H%M)) timeString contains the date part of the file's name.

Re: Daylight savings time problem

2008-03-26 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:37:16 - Fabio Durieux Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to execute some operations based on a file's time. The file's time is actually the file's name (e.g. FILE1_20080326170558). So I do this: fileTimeInSecs = time.mktime(time.strptime(timeString,

Re: Daylight savings time problem

2008-03-26 Thread Salsa
: Re: Daylight savings time problem On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:37:16 - Fabio Durieux Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to execute some operations based on a file's time. The file's time is actually the file's name (e.g. FILE1_20080326170558). So I do this: fileTimeInSecs

Re: Daylight savings time problem

2008-03-26 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Re: Daylight savings time problem

2008-03-26 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Salsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, but could you be more specific? How exactly should I use UTC? Pardon me. I misread. I thought that you were creating the files. I see that you are reading files created by someone else. Still, would

Re: Daylight savings time problem

2008-03-26 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:45:47 - 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

Re: Daylight savings time problem

2008-03-26 Thread Salsa
Yeah, I guess it would, but it doesn't feel like the right way to do it. Isn't there a way I can set tm_isdst to -1? Or at least slice the time_struct and then add another element to its end when passing it to mktime? Thanks for all your help! --- D'Arcy J.M. Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: