Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I am surprised that we don't see the same failure on 32-bit windows buildbot. Windows mktime does not support negative time_t in either 32 or 64 bit version: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d1y53h2a(v=vs.110).aspx We are probably just lucky and no Windows buildbot uses a TZ set ahead of UTC. Stefan, what is your timezone? What is happening here is that mktime() is called for 1970-01-01 00:00 which results in positive timestamp for the timezones west of Greenwich and negative timestamp east of Greenwich. For example, using GNU date: $ TZ=Europe/Paris date -d "1970-01-01 00:00" +%s -3600 $ TZ=America/New_York date -d "1970-01-01 00:00" +%s 18000 I am adding Victor as an expert on pushing the limits of date/time functions. ---------- nosy: +haypo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15165> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
