Daylight savings time problem

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:37:16 -0000
"Fabio Durieux Lopes" <durieux_br at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>    I'm trying to execute some operations based on a file's time. The 
> file's time is actually the file's name (e.g. FILE1_20080326170558).
>    So I do this:
>    fileTimeInSecs = time.mktime(time.strptime(timeString, 
> "%Y%m%d%H%M"))
>  
>    timeString contains the date part of the file's name. Function 
> strptime returns a time_struct, but my problem is that tm_isdst is 
> set to 0, and when we enter daylight savings time the file's time is 
> off by 1 hour. This time_struct is also read only so I can't change 
> tm_isdst to -1.
> 
>   Anyone knows how to fix it?

Use UTC.

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