[New-bugs-announce] [issue22932] email.utils.formatdate uses unreliable time.timezone constant

[Dmitry Shachnev]

New submission from Dmitry Shachnev:

The value of time.timezone may be wrong sometimes (see http://bugs.python.org/issue22752), so I think the email library should not use it:

$ python3 -c "from email.utils import formatdate; print(formatdate(localtime=True))"
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:16:32 +0400
$ date -R
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:16:32 +0300

Using something from datetime module may be a better solution.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 231608
nosy: belopolsky, mitya57
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: email.utils.formatdate uses unreliable time.timezone constant
versions: Python 3.4

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