hi,
i finally worked out what was causing the timezone problem. all of the
affected machines had a recent version of cygwin installed which sets the TZ
environment variable using zoneinfo names such as Australia/Sydney. the
unaffected machine had an older version of cygwin which doesn't set the
Dear raf:
Yes, time zones in the python time module are known to be somewhat messed
up. Mark Hammond and I went several rounds while trying to create a test
for the python time capabilities in adodbapi. When a test worked for me
in North America, it was almost guaranteed to fail for him in
Vernon Cole wrote:
Dear raf:
Yes, time zones in the python time module are known to be somewhat messed
up. Mark Hammond and I went several rounds while trying to create a test
for the python time capabilities in adodbapi. When a test worked for me
in North America, it was almost
Hi List,
Since Raf says that the motherboard was changed in one of the cases, I
think it could be an issue with the BIOS clock settings. I have noticed on
some OSes that there is a time setting Set Hardware clock to UTC or
localtime.
This would imply timezone awareness in the BIOS. You might
