Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:24 PM, anatoly techtonik <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: ..
As for offtopic UTC vs GMT - I doubt there is a way to clearly express that the offset sign of the returned values is negated in comparison with real "UTC offsets" without resorting to some king of alternative east/west scale.
Sure there is. Here is how RFC 3339 handles this: """ Numeric offsets are calculated as "local time minus UTC". So the equivalent time in UTC can be determined by subtracting the offset from the local time. """ and here is a quote from MacOS man page for tzset: """ offset Indicates the value one must add to the local time to arrive at Coor- dinated Universal Time. """ No geographic reference needed. (And the issue is not UTC vs. GMT: both UTC and GMT are timescales, sometimes even considered the same. The off-topic issue is UTC vs. Prime Meridian.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7229> _______________________________________