On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe you need to get out more. :-) This is how datetime is >> represented in App Engine's datastore: >> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/typesandpropertyclasses#DateTimeProperty >> (Note: These docs are unclear about whether a tzinfo attribute is >> present. The code is clear that it isn't.) > > From the docs: "Some libraries use the TZ environment variable to > control the time zone applied to date-time values. App Engine sets > this environment variable to 'UTC'." This means that App Engine's > local timezone is UTC and strictly speaking this is not a counter > example to what I said. Proposed mktime() based code will still work > in this case.
Fair enough. Perhaps unrelated do you think a tzinfo representing "local time" can be built? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com