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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-02-18 05:09:14 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-02-18 05:09:14 (GMT) |
| commit | 8cf94e608ee430fe82dd4a48f52392cb56e8bd7f (patch) | |
| tree | 12cc9c343a1f429953159e6f1a99def004a6921f /Doc | |
| parent | 00455b77a66f78679f41e2b33955a439cb66316b (diff) | |
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Add mktime_tz(). Add () to a function reference in parsedate_tz().
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/librfc822.tex | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/librfc822.tex | 10 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex index 1374755..4e65e91 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex @@ -40,13 +40,21 @@ returned. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{parsedate_tz}{date} -Performs the same function as \code{parsedate}, but returns either +Performs the same function as \code{parsedate()}, but returns either \code{None} or a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements make up a tuple that can be passed directly to \code{time.mktime()}, and the tenth is the offset of the date's time zone from UTC (which is the official term for Greenwich Mean Time). \end{funcdesc} +\begin{funcdesc}{mktime_tz}{tuple} +Turn a 10-tuple as returned by \code{parsedate_tz()} into a UTC timestamp. +Minor deficiency: this first interprets the first 8 elements as a +local time and then compensates for the timezone difference; +this may yield a slight error around daylight savings time +switch dates. Not enough to worry about for common use. +\end{funcdesc} + \subsection{Message Objects} A \code{Message} instance has the following methods: diff --git a/Doc/librfc822.tex b/Doc/librfc822.tex index 1374755..4e65e91 100644 --- a/Doc/librfc822.tex +++ b/Doc/librfc822.tex @@ -40,13 +40,21 @@ returned. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{parsedate_tz}{date} -Performs the same function as \code{parsedate}, but returns either +Performs the same function as \code{parsedate()}, but returns either \code{None} or a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements make up a tuple that can be passed directly to \code{time.mktime()}, and the tenth is the offset of the date's time zone from UTC (which is the official term for Greenwich Mean Time). \end{funcdesc} +\begin{funcdesc}{mktime_tz}{tuple} +Turn a 10-tuple as returned by \code{parsedate_tz()} into a UTC timestamp. +Minor deficiency: this first interprets the first 8 elements as a +local time and then compensates for the timezone difference; +this may yield a slight error around daylight savings time +switch dates. Not enough to worry about for common use. +\end{funcdesc} + \subsection{Message Objects} A \code{Message} instance has the following methods: |