Re: Is %z broken for return values of time.gmtime()?

From	Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Is %z broken for return values of time.gmtime()?
Date	2013-09-18 15:01 +0300
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random832@fastmail.us writes:

> I would argue that it _should_ be, and that it should populate it with 0
> in gmtime or either with timezone/altzone or by some sort of reverse
> calculation in localtime, but it is not. Another problem to add to my
> list of reasons for my recent python-ideas proposal.

Docs say that tm_gmtoff and tm_zone are available if the struct tm in
the underlying C library has it. Based on that I kinda expected Cygwin
to have it but apparently not.

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Re: Is %z broken for return values of time.gmtime()? random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-17 08:48 -0400
  Re: Is %z broken for return values of time.gmtime()? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2013-09-18 15:01 +0300

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