Time travel

[Lee Merrill]

And I can't do arithmetic, it is actually about 3600--never mind!


On Nov 17, 10:37 am, Lee Merrill <lee_merr... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm seeing an anomaly in the python time function on March 9, 2008
> (the "spring foward" time):
>
> >>> time.mktime((2008, 3, 9, 2, 59, 59, 0, 0, -1))
> 1205049599.0
> >>> time.mktime((2008, 3, 9, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1))
>
> 1205046000.0
>
> Does anyone have an idea as to what might cause a 4000 seconds
> backwards jump on March 9th of last year? I would have expected 3600
> seconds.
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
>
> P.S. A full program demonstrating the question:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import time, datetime
>
> d1 = datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 9, 2, 59, 0).timetuple()
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import time, datetime
>
> d1 = datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 9, 2, 59, 0).timetuple()
> d2 = datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 9, 3, 0, 0).timetuple()
> t1 = time.mktime(d1)
> t2 = time.mktime(d2)
>
> print t1, t2