From 67133e25a28ad2d1117fb976499b67f5955f877a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 16:09:10 +0000 Subject: Neatify the _timezones table and remove a misleading comment about inaccuracies in mktime_tz(). --- Lib/rfc822.py | 17 +++++------------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py index 9d76f6d..9e9faee 100644 --- a/Lib/rfc822.py +++ b/Lib/rfc822.py @@ -632,11 +632,11 @@ _daynames = ['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun'] # instead of timezone names. _timezones = {'UT':0, 'UTC':0, 'GMT':0, 'Z':0, - 'AST': -400, 'ADT': -300, # Atlantic standard + 'AST': -400, 'ADT': -300, # Atlantic (used in Canada) 'EST': -500, 'EDT': -400, # Eastern - 'CST': -600, 'CDT':-500, # Centreal - 'MST':-700, 'MDT':-600, # Mountain - 'PST':-800, 'PDT':-700 # Pacific + 'CST': -600, 'CDT': -500, # Central + 'MST': -700, 'MDT': -600, # Mountain + 'PST': -800, 'PDT': -700 # Pacific } @@ -713,14 +713,7 @@ def parsedate(data): def mktime_tz(data): - """Turn a 10-tuple as returned by parsedate_tz() into a UTC timestamp. - - Minor glitch: 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. - - """ + """Turn a 10-tuple as returned by parsedate_tz() into a UTC timestamp.""" if data[9] is None: # No zone info, so localtime is better assumption than GMT return time.mktime(data[:8] + (-1,)) -- cgit v0.12