On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Eduardo Vieira <eduardo.su...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I had a problem with a script yesterday that made me puzzled.
> My time zone is US Mountain Time. This script was running nice last
> week, but yesterday it reported the date of today instead
> So, yesterday at 5:20pm this line:
> hoje = time.strftime("%a, %b %d, %Y", time.gmtime())
>
> Gave me this: "Tue, Sep 29, 2009" instead of "Mon, Sep 28, 2009"
> What's going on?
> Minutes ago, while I was investigating this I had this output:
>
>>>> time.gmtime()
> time.struct_time(tm_year=2009, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=29, tm_hour=14,
> tm_min=48, tm_sec=49, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=272, tm_isdst=0)
>>>> time.localtime()
> time.struct_time(tm_year=2009, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=29, tm_hour=8,
> tm_min=50, tm_sec=28, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=272, tm_isdst=1)
>
> I see there are 6 hours difference, but I'm sure the script ran before 6pm
> Should I simply modify my code to use localtime, instead? Why did it
> happen only yesterday?
>
> I'm using Windows XP Professional, and my clock says it's Tuesday,
> Sept. 29, 2009 and 9:10 AM
>
> Regards,
>
> Eduardo
>Some time ago I experienced that. And today again. I wonder if it's not related to the fact that I did some system restore operations today? _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
