But this doesn't help, because then you still don't know whether it's
dst or not. You then would have to jump through whatever convolutions
to do that calculation.
All I want to know is the *current* offset between local time and
utc. I know the system has this information already; it doesn't
require any kind of fancy calculations about global politics or
anything.
On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Kent Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:48 PM, David Perlman <dperl...@wisc.edu>
wrote:
Surely there is a way to simply print out the local time, date and
time zone
without needing to write your own class... I can't believe this is
the only
way...
Here's why I don't believe it. Both the datetime and time modules
provide
both functions for returning the current local time, and the
current utc
time. So, assuming that those functions are trustworthy, it *must*
be true
that the OS always knows the current offset from utc time. So why
is there
no straightforward way to get that offset in python? I mean, I can
do this:
time.timezone gives the offset for standard time.
--
-dave----------------------------------------------------------------
"Pseudo-colored pictures of a person's brain lighting up are
undoubtedly more persuasive than a pattern of squiggles produced by a
polygraph. That could be a big problem if the goal is to get to the
truth." -Dr. Steven Hyman, Harvard
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