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[Luis N]

In other words I have to do some arithmetic:

>>> import time
>>> time.timezone
0

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:44:48 +1300, Tony Meyer <tameyer at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > time.timezone gives you, I think, the offset between
> > your current timezone and GMT. However, being myself in the GMT zone,
> > I don't know exactly if the returned offset is positive or negative
> > (it returns 0 here, which makes sense :D ).
> 
> Whether or not it's positive or negative depends on which side of GMT/UTC
> you are, of course :)  Note that the result in is seconds, too:
> 
> >>> import time
> >>> time.timezone
> -43200
> >>> time.timezone/60/60
> -12
> 
> (I'm in NZ, 12 hours ahead of GMT/UTC).
> 
> =Tony.Meyer
> 
>