Message 127496 - Python tracker

Message127496

Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, lavajoe
Date	2011-01-29.23:07:11
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Joe Peterson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > Note that this also exposes another problem with Time2Internaldate(), since it uses > time.timezone/time.altzone, which are only valid for the current rules, not old rules as in the London case > near the epoch. This is a known issue. Hopefully this example will raise more interest for issue 9527. See also issue 1647654 which suggests a python-only work-around.

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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Joe Peterson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Note that this also exposes another problem with Time2Internaldate(), since it uses
> time.timezone/time.altzone, which are only valid for the current rules, not old rules as in the London case
> near the epoch.

This is a known issue.  Hopefully this example will raise more
interest for issue 9527.  See also issue 1647654 which suggests a
python-only work-around.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-29 23:07:13	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, georg.brandl, benjamin.peterson, lavajoe
2011-01-29 23:07:11	belopolsky	link	issue10939 messages
2011-01-29 23:07:11	belopolsky	create