Qvx wrote: > Hello, > > I'we written a simple web deployment program which scans for the > changes made to local copy of web site. Changed files are than > packaged into a zip file and deployed to web server. > > Now here's the catch. Changes are computed using (1) log file from the > last deployment and (2) local file system. Log file contains > datestamps (integers) returned from os.path.getmtime(f) function at > the time of last deployment. So i'm comparing two getmtime() values. > The problem is when Daylight saving kicks in: suddenly all local files > are reported as older than they were at the time of deployment. > > How do I compensate for this? > > Thanks, > Tvrtko
Never use the local time, always use GMT ( UTC ) time instead. Since it seems os.path.getmtime already gives UTC time, onemust wonder if your OS isn't broken in some way ;) If you can't solve that problem, then use a simple md5sum of the files instead. md5sum isn't that slow to compute and it gives better results than timestanps. Or use a specialised tool like rsync which does a very good job for that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
