[issue19583] time.strftime fails to use %:z time formatter of the underlying C library

STINNER Victor added the comment: According to Mathieu on IRC, it's not a bug: date behaves differently than the C function strftime(). -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue19583] time.strftime fails to use %:z time formatter of the underlying C library

Mathieu Dupuy added the comment: But in fact "date" was not the right reference to look at, C strftime has exactly the same behaviour than python, so I'm marking this bug as invalid and closing it. -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _

[issue19583] time.strftime fails to use %:z time formatter of the underlying C library

New submission from Mathieu Dupuy: function time.strftime fails to use '%:z' time formatter of the underlying library. Passing it does not format time accordingly but returns it as if it was a non-formatting string. Simple reproduction, on Linux: $ date +%:z +01:00 $ python -c 'import time;pri