[issue19502] Wrong time zone offset, when using time.strftime() with a given struct_time

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:

> The documentation for time.strftime(format[, t]) reads:
> "If t is not provided, the current time as returned by localtime() is used"
> but apparently there must be something extra going on under the hood.

Yes, the C implementation uses tm_zone and tm_gmtoff fields on the platforms that support them.   I won't be unreasonable to document this fact in 2.7.

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