Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Wed Jan 2 12:27:30 EST 2013
In article <mailman.1574.1357138278.29569.python-list at python.org>,
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I assume you mean timestamps. A date doesn't need to worry about UTC
>> the way a timestamp does.
I'm not sure how a date and a timestamp differ in any significant
way. A date is just a very low-precision time.
>> 3) Run all your servers with their timezones set to UTC.
>
> Not strictly necessary imo; as long as your application knows that it
> needs to work in UTC, it doesn't matter what the OS works in. But yes,
> it is a convenience.
Many small conveniences add up to conservation of sanity :-)
I suppose what's really essential is a way to quickly see the current
UTC time. That way, when you're looking at some event in a log file,
it's easy to figure out, "that was 20 minutes ago", as opposed to,
"that was 5 hours and 20 minutes ago". I run my desktop in New York
time (so I know when I'm supposed to eat lunch), but I also have a
second clock widget displaying UTC time just below it. Right now,
it's 17:22.
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