[Python-Dev] os.path.getmtime on Windows

[Christian Tismer]

Hi Python developers,

today I got a complaint from the python.de IRC channel
about os.path.getmtime and time zone.

How to produce the weird behavior:

1. create a file
2. get it's os.path.getmtime()
3. change your time zone
4. get os.path.getmtime again

compare - the time stamps are different.
Change the time zone back, and they are identical, again.

I was not ableto produce an identity, neither by time.gmtime
nor by time.localtime, so I'm a bit confused.

I checked the sources, and this is probably not a Python
problem. It uses the suggested win32 function properly.
But the win32 documentation seems to have no hints about this.

I assumend the value would be in UTC, but it is obviously not.

Is there a way to circumvent this problem, or am I missing something?
If this is not the expected behavior, then it might make sense
to find a patch.

thanks -- chris
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