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Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple?

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In article <mailman.1574.1357138278.29569.python-list@python.org>,
Chris Angelico  <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I assume you mean timestamps. A date doesn't need to worry about UTC
>> the way a timestamp does.

I'm not sure how a date and a timestamp differ in any significant
way.  A date is just a very low-precision time.

>> 3) Run all your servers with their timezones set to UTC.
>
> Not strictly necessary imo; as long as your application knows that it
> needs to work in UTC, it doesn't matter what the OS works in. But yes,
> it is a convenience.

Many small conveniences add up to conservation of sanity :-)

I suppose what's really essential is a way to quickly see the current
UTC time.  That way, when you're looking at some event in a log file,
it's easy to figure out, "that was 20 minutes ago", as opposed to,
"that was 5 hours and 20 minutes ago".  I run my desktop in New York
time (so I know when I'm supposed to eat lunch), but I also have a
second clock widget displaying UTC time just below it.  Right now,
it's 17:22.

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Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 00:01 -0800
  Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 09:33 +0100
  Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Dave Angel <davea@dejaviewphoto.com> - 2013-01-02 09:06 -0500
  Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-01-02 09:28 -0500
    Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 01:51 +1100
      Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-01-02 12:27 -0500
        Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 04:34 +1100
        Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2013-01-02 12:44 -0500
  Re: Using mktime to convert date to seconds since epoch - omitting elements from the tuple? Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> - 2013-01-03 23:46 +0000

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