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timemodule.c: Python loses current timezone

Bug #564607 reported by Grant Bowman on 2010-04-16

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Python	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	python2.6 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: python2.6

Python routines in timemodule.c sometimes force glibc to use GMT instead of the correct timezone.

PHP and Perl don't have this bug. This has been filed upstream since 2003 as http://bugs.python.org/issue762963 and has a patch (and a test) that needs a review.

I think I reproduced this by:
$ python
>>>import time
>>>time.strftime("%Z", time.localtime())
'PDT'
>>>time.strftime("%z", time.localtime())
'+0000'

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Revision history for this message

Grant Bowman (grantbow) wrote on 2010-04-16:

patch from upstream bug Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-04-16

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added: patch

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Nigel Babu (nigelbabu) wrote on 2010-05-05:

Upstream tracker is still testing the patch and there seems to be some issues, we'll wait until it gets accepted or confirmed perfect before getting the fix in.

tags:

added: patch-needswork
removed: patch

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-05-05