Bug in time.timezone of Python 2.1.1

Fri Sep 7 14:03:00 GMT 2001

Norman,
Thanks a lot for the patch. I just tested it out and it fixed the
problem.
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Norman Vine wrote:
> Ivan J. Wagner writes:
> >Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 8:03 PM
> >To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> >Cc: jason@tishler.net
> >Subject: Bug in time.timezone of Python 2.1.1
> >
> >
> >I maintain a CVS archive (using cvs 1.11.0-1) on a Cygwin 1.3.2 install
> >and use ViewCVS 0.7 to access it. ViewCVS uses python and today I
> >upgraded from python 2.1-1 to 2.1.1-1. However the upgade 
> >broke the Age
> >field in ViewCVS. The Age field is the time span between the 
> >file's check
> >in and today. The Age field is displayed when you view a CVS directory
> >listing. I looked at the ViewCVS sources and tracked the problem to
> >time.timezone. In 2.1 it returns 18000 but in 2.1.1 it returns
> >1834228892. Does anybody have any day what might be causing 
> >this problem?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ivan Wagner
>> YES
>> see attached patch
>> Cheers
>> Norman Vine
>
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