Timothy Hume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to ensure that all my time calculations are done in UTC. This is
> easy with Python on UNIX machines. I simply set the TZ environment
> variable to "UTC", and it ensures that the time functions use UTC.
>
> My question is, how do I get similar functionality using Python on
> Windows?
If you're just talking about time module functions, I think you should
be able to do the same thing. The time functions are overlays for the
C library versions which do use tzset() and look at the TZ environment
variable as under Unix.
> py24
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> print time.tzname
('Eastern Standard Time', 'Eastern Daylight Time')
>>> print time.ctime()
Wed Dec 01 17:42:08 2004
> TZ=UTC py24
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> print time.tzname
('UTC', '')
>>> print time.ctime()
Wed Dec 01 22:42:21 2004
(I've used 2.4 here, but the same results work back until 1.5.2)
-- David
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