[Tutor] Hey.need help on time

[Ray Jones]

On 09/06/2012 12:51 AM, eryksun wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Keitaro Kaoru <tokyo.rook at gmail.com> wrote:
>> been trying to change this so it wont use my server time. but my
>> actual time here in the us.EST. havent been able to figure it out
>>
>> def sstime(user, body, m):
>>         os.environ['TZ'] = 'US/Eastern'
> Now just call time.tzset(), and it should work.
Why the additional step of calling time.tzset()? Once os.environ['TZ']
is set, I've found that time.localtime() responds to the new TZ without
anything extra. Is that a difference in versions (2.7.3 here)?


Ray