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From: mal at lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:04:05 +0200
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Subject: mktime() like function to produce GMT?
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References: <00be01be9308$c649cf60$0301a8c0@cbd.net.au>
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Message-ID: <3729B855.3A7C6B5A@lemburg.com>
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X-UID: 175
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Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> I need a function to produce a Unix epoch time from a time tuple, a la
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> time.mktime(). Problem is, mktime() gives you the tuple in localtime, which
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> is dangerous if you're dealing with GMT times in the past (like in the
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> HTTP).
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> Is there a function that will make a GMT epoch time straight from a time
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> tuple?
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On some platforms there is gmtime() which does exactly this.
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It's available through mxDateTime, BTW, which also offers a
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work-around solution for those platforms where it is not
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available. See the Python Pages below.
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--
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Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 245 days left
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