Time zones

[Timothy Hume]

Hi,

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?

Thanks,

Tim.

 

[David Bolen]

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.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.Wed Dec 01 22:42:21 2004


(I've used 2.4 here, but the same results work back until 1.5.2)

-- David