[Tutor] ascii encoding

Max Noel maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr
Wed Jan 26 04:21:38 CET 2005


On Jan 26, 2005, at 02:44, Tony Meyer 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:

	Of course. What I meant was that I didn't know which "side" returns a 
positive offset (IOW, whether Paris (GMT+1) returns -3600 or +3600 -- 
it's the former, it seems).

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