[Mailman-Developers] clobber_date bug

[Dan Mick]

> > While clobber_date doesn't process the existing date, it
> > seems to replace it by the local date (namely
> > the output of ctime(time()).  That seems correct to me.
> > Are you certain your local TZ is set properly?
> 
> Using python 1.5.2, ctime() is giving local time without timezone info.

Good point.  It's the correct time, but it's not fully-qualified.
I get it.

> If I use asctime(gmtime(time)) I seem to get the correct result.
> 
> [eds@ike eds]$ python
> Python 1.5.2 (#1, Dec 21 2000, 15:29:08)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux-i386
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> time.ctime(time.time())
> 'Thu Nov  8 16:01:44 2001'
> >>> time.tzname
> ('CST', 'CDT')
> >>> time.timezone /3600
> 6
> >>> time.asctime(time.gmtime(time.time()))
> 'Thu Nov  8 22:06:05 2001'

Well, sorta.  You really want that TZ information appended.

> So it looks like my options are to use asctime(gmtime(time)) or write a
> routine that parses time.timezone into "-0600".

Luckily 'altzone' is defined in time, so  

"+%02d%02d" % (time.altzone / 3600, time.altzone % 3600)

seems to do it.  But it sure looks like a bug to me.