[Tutor] time.mktime(time.gmtime(time tuple from any timezone))always will be the same ?
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Sat Jul 14 00:21:35 CEST 2007
"Arun Kumar PG" <arunkumarpg at gmail.com> wrote
> May be a dumb question but I am a bit confused (may be coz working
> over 24
> hours for the last couple days:)). so the question is:
>
> No matter which timezone I am in if i say
> time.gmtime(time.mktime((
> datetime.date().timetuple()))) I will always get the same value. -
> right ?
Hopefully. There is a slight chance that odd things will happen around
the international dateline - Timezones are funny things and devilishly
hard to get exactly right in all situations, but by and large gmtime
will allways return the UTC (aka GMT) time
Alan G
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