In your case it is the EEST, as this is the DST timezone (see again: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html)
** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ python ** Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 30 2005, 21:51:10) ** [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2 ** Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. ** >>> import time ** >>> print time.tzname ** ('CET', 'CEST') ** >>> time.strptime("2005-06-07 15:07:12 CET", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z") ** (2005, 6, 7, 15, 7, 12, 1, 158, 0) ** >>> time.strptime("2005-06-07 15:07:12 CEST", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z") ** (2005, 6, 7, 15, 7, 12, 1, 158, 1) ** >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list